This is so important that is going to be said now, that I want to go slowly, for you to write clearly every word (dictates carefully). "Not only is the partition so thin that you can hear the operators on the other side, but a big hole has been made." This message is for the gentleman associated with the chemical laboratory. The boy--I call them all boys, because I was over a hundred when I lived here and they are all boys to me--he says, he is here, but he says: "Hitherto it has been a thing of the head, now I am come over it is a thing of the heart. What is more (here Peters jumped up in his chair vigorously, snapped his fingers excitedly, and spoke loudly): "Good God! how father will be able to speak out! much firmer than he has ever done, because it will touch our hearts." M. F. A. L.--Does he want his father to speak out? Yes, but not yet--wait, the evidence will be given in such a way that it cannot be contradicted, and his name is big enough to sweep all stupid opposition on one side. I was not conscious of much suffering, and I am glad that I settled my affairs before I went. [He did; he made a will just before leaving England, and left things in good order. He also cleared up things when he joined the Army.] Have you a sister of his with you, and one on our side? A little child almost, so little that you never associated her with him. There are two sisters, one on each side of him, one in the dark and one in the light. [Raymond was the only boy sandwiched in between two sisters; Violet older than he, and still living (presumably in the dark), and Laura[17] younger than he, died a few minutes after birth (in the light). Raymond was the youngest boy, and had thus a sister on either side of him.] Your girl is standing on one side, Paul on the other, and your boy in the centre. (Here 'Moonstone' put his arm round K. K.'s shoulder to show how the boy was standing.) Now he stoops over you and kisses you there (indicating the brow). Before he went away he came home for a little while. Didn't he come for three days? (There is a little unimportant confusion in the record about 'days.') Then, with evident intention of trying to give a 'test,' some trivial but characteristic features were mentioned about the interior of three houses--the one we are in now, the one we had last occupied at Liverpool, and the one he called 'Mother's home.' But there is again some confusion in the record, partly because M. F. A. L. didn't understand what he was driving at, partly because the recorder found it difficult to follow; and though the confusion was subsequently disentangled through another medium next day, 28 September, it is hardly worth while to give as much explanation as would be needed to make the points clear. So this part is omitted. (See p. 145). And he wanted me to tell you of a kiss on the forehead. M. F. A. L.--He did not kiss me on the forehead when he said good-bye.