SECOND SIGHT SENSATIONS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 87, 25 March 1911, Page 1 (Supplement)

SECOND SIGHT SENSATIONS.

REMARKABLE CONFESSIONS OF A bOUIETY CLAIRVOYANT.

There r.ro many members of the l.igbess r-xety who don’t hesitate to consult the clairvoyant in times of uncertainty or impending trouble, and in the “Recollections of a Society Clairvoyant” provides interesting reading It throws light on the confidences that pass between client and seer.

As might be guessed, the clients themselves f. rm an interesting study, ana tho writer of the bock’ who calk himself Mr. S-, has something to say on this point:

" I am very susceptible to influences, and I got the most forcible feelings of antagonism and attraction with my clients. They are, indeed, a strange medley. Some are absolutely colourless individuals, who come to me out of mere curiosity, or a dreiro for what they term “excitement.” . . . Then I have clients who ar? absolutely en rapport with me...delightful sensitive nntur «. imbued with a love of, and belief psychic things. With these peep!, a sitting becomes a joy. . . .

NO WORD MINCING. Dot there arc -ithaMwhose coming nrou cs dislike, repnfln, and antagonism in me. Bestial creatures, wrapped in mantles of worldlinoss and rapacity, gross natures, existing solely for the world, stcejxxl in the delights of tho senses, whose better selves have long since ceased to exist. These mem and women belong to the part of this London of ours which calls itself •‘smart.’’ They consult me chiefly about their intrigues, their debts, and ♦lie thousand-undone trifles which constitute life, as they interpret it. The women are often ’beautiful; the men well set-up and well groomed, but under the fair exterior evil masquerades and with them the crystal becomes a devil's pieture-l<ok.

From the point of view of the ordinary reader, the finding of missing property will very likely appeal as among the more useful functions of the clairvoyant, and in this line Mr. S. seems to have had considerable suc«ess. For instance, there was a robbery from a private hotel at Brighton.

One th* 3 people staying there was a French lady, who possessed a pair of wonderful singlestone diamond earrings, and great was her consternation one day when they unaccountably, dwapron red. . . Directly I entered Madame N.’s room. I instinctively felt that a pirl had stolen the earrings, and 1 said to Mrs. B.: “Th© missing articles have not been taken out of the house. Now I will tell yon what to do. Go downstairs, and make it known to your employees that you are certain the earrings are on the premises, and give orders for the carpets to be taken up tomorrow.” ... At noon the next day I received a wire from Dr. W.’s wife, who was staying at the hotel, saying that one earring had been found. . . DETECTING A THIEF

Mr. S. subsequently learned that ♦.his earring had been found a little way under the carpet in Madame N.’s room, evidently having been placed there. Later, the other earring was found in the dustbin. How useful it may prove to have a clairvoyant as a fnend the following makes, clear. After an arranged meeting with a man at dinner at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel (New York), Mr. S. was asked his candid opinion of the other, and he answered:

"My opinion is that he is absolutely frothy, ami nothing more nor less than a brilliant swindler. . . .” ”H’m!” said my friend thoughtfully. and he produced a folded paper, ■which he gave me. “Will you hold this, and tell me what you get ? . . . The paper relates to a valuable patent which tho man you saw wants to sell me.” "It is not his to sell: he’s stolen it!” I interrupted. “Wait three days, and yon will see if I am not right.” Two days later my friend came to me in a state of groat excitement. Ho liad received a letter warning him not to bnv this very patent, as it had been stolen and was lining offered for sale under the real owner’s name.

But enough has been said to show that the life of a society clairvoyant is bv no means devoid of interest or ex*itement