so exact; but when the subject of tickled faces is considered, we shall
see that it does not insure complete accuracy, any more than that exists
in volley firing, which with inferior shots is more telling than
independent firing, and yet is not perfect.

The reason why more audile phenomena are perceived at night is that the
percipient is tolerably still. Father H. and other people heard these
sounds more when in bed after daylight. If loud clangs, &c., were heard
by night by the garrison under Miss Freer's command, it was that the
attacking hypnotists did not have the chances they had with Father H. of
hypnotising their victims; and here again, where action on the ear and
eye is concerned, talking with a friend, or indeed any one, is a great
safeguard. The tympanum is stirred, the eye moves--the mere irregularity
of the breath is an aid. Another reason will be given later. Miss
Campbell, whose case--one of experimental thought transference--has
been twice referred to, was an intimate friend of Miss Despard, who
effected the transfers. Her case differs from his; he expected nothing
(at least consciously), and perceived nothing except ugly sounds, until
he got a feeling that some one was glad that he left, and that he himself
would not like to pass another night there. Perhaps this last feeling was
a deceptive transfer; they did not like the stout priest bluffing them.
Later he was willing to go to the house at B---- again.

Miss Campbell got a word, imperfect perhaps, but a better-developed
effort developed better results. It is worth remarking that in another
experimental transfer of thought, where the percipient was not warned,
when Mr. Godfrey's apparition was seen by a lady friend, she heard a
curious sound like birds in the ivy. It is by no means unlikely that
this was the result of his first trying to attract her attention.[7]