Let us put the two statements side by side:-- Before he went away you ... Raymond can tell us had ... one where he is in a of a photograph no copy of group of other men. He is which had reached England? particular that I should tell you of this. Not being able to explain the extraordinary identity of these photographs, I must leave the problem to the creator of Sherlock Holmes; we shall gain no help from Sir Oliver, for his ideas of identity, as we shall see in the next paragraph, are equally curious. Now for 'exactly as he described it': Sir Oliver Lodge, having been informed in an ordinary letter that a group photograph containing Raymond is being sent to him from France, went to another medium and told her, 'He said something about having a photograph taken with some other men' (this itself is a garbled statement); leading questions followed, and the medium fenced with them. Here are the important ones:-- O. J. L.: 'Do you recollect the photograph at all?' 'He thinks there were several others taken with him, not one or two, but several.' (This is not even a guess.) O. J. L.: 'Does he remember how he looked in the photograph?' 'No, he doesn't remember how he looked.' O. J. L.: 'No, no. I mean was he standing up?' 'No, he doesn't seem to think so. Some were raised up round; he was sitting down, and some were raised up at the back of him. Some were standing, and some were sitting, he thinks.' (Here is a correct description, anyhow; it is an even chance whether he is sitting or standing, and, the sitting chance being taken, the rest is padding. We are told on page 279 that another photograph showed him standing, so that a hit could have been scored if the other chance had been taken.) O. J. L.: 'Did he have a stick?' 'He doesn't remember that.' (Yet the presence of a stick in the picture is hailed on page 110 as one of the strikingly correct peculiarities mentioned by Raymond. Be it noted that the stick was spoken of in connection with one of the three photographs that the family was said to have _before he went away_, and is used as 'evidence' concerning _the one sent home from France_.) O. J. L.: 'Was it out of doors?' 'Yes, practically.' Feda (_sotto voce_): 'What you mean, "yes practically," must have been out of doors or not out of doors. You mean yes, don't you?' Feda thinks he means 'yes,' because he says 'practically'. O. J. L.: 'It may have been a shelter.' 'It might have been. Try to show Feda. At the back he shows me lines going down. It looks like a black background, with lines at the back of them. (Feda here kept drawing vertical lines in the air.)'