[Real Ghost Stories by William T. Stead]@TWC D-Link bookReal Ghost Stories CHAPTER III 5/14
She will write postscripts to Leonie I.'s letters, of the nature of which poor Leonie I.is unconscious. It seems, however, that when once set up this new personality can occasionally assume the initiative, and can say what it wants to say without any prompting.
This is curiously illustrated by what may be termed a conjoint epistle addressed to Professor Janet by Madame B.and her secondary self, Leonie II.
"She had," he says, "left Havre more than two months when I received from her a very curious letter.
On the first page was a short note written in a serious and respectful style.
She was unwell, she said--worse on some days than on others--and she signed her true name, Madame B.But over the page began another letter in quite a different style, and which I may quote as a curiosity:--'My dear good sir,--I must tell you that B.really makes me suffer very much; she cannot sleep, she spits blood, she hurts me.
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