Next, a French book, brought by an incredulous physician, was placed open upon the forehead of Alexis, who read aloud some lines of it.

This experiment, with variations, was several times repeated.

The third was my own test.

I had sealed up something unknown to all the world but myself in twelve envelopes of white paper.

Alexis, placing the parcel on his forehead, in broken and difficult enunciation, said "it was writing, two names, both commencing with M; one of them an English name, the other French, or some language not English; that the first contained four letters, the second six (being really nine)," but he failed to give the names, which were Mary Magdalene.