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SECOND SIGHT AND APPARITIONS 149
of "second sight."
She wrote and asked me a very
curious question.
Seeing the Future
"Can you tell me why God allows me to see the
future, but in such a way that I cannot help the
friends I know? I will give you three instances
of what I mean."
Of these I will briefly record two.
"The other day," she wrote, "I saw myself
standing by the side of a steep hill I knew well,
near Folkestone, and a car full of ladies dashed past
me. At the bottom of the hill, on the main road,
was a cart going slowly along full of stones, and the
motor dashed into it, and the people were thrown
out and apparently hurt.
"Now, as they passed me they were all looking
the other way, and I could not see their faces.
Useless Foresight
"A fortnight after I saw in the papers that a
party of my friends, going down that very hill, had
met with the very accident I saw, but could not
prevent, because their faces were turned away.
Why was this?"
She said that she generally saw things about
a fortnight before they happened.
The other case was that of a lady she saw driving
in a victoria, but the lady had her parasol over her
face, so that my patient could not see it as she drove
past her in the vision. Just then a hansom cab
drove up and dashed into the carriage, throwing the