one o'clock in the afternoon
Until then I must gang my own gait . '' I now come to the remarkable portion of my story , -- at least it seems to me the remarkable portion under my present conditions of vision . In August of the summer following Miss Fellows 's visit , and the manifestations in my house at Atkinsville , I was startled one pleasant morning , while sitting in the office of a medium in Washington Street in Boston , by a singularly unpleasant communication . `` The second day of next May , '' wrote the medium , -- she wrote with the forefinger of one hand upon the palm of the other , -- `` the second of May , at one o'clock in the afternoon , you will be summoned into a spiritual state of existence . '' `` I suppose , in good English , that means I 'm going to die , '' I replied , carelessly . `` Would you be so good as to write it with a pen and ink , that there may be no mistake ? '' She wrote it distinctly : `` The second of May , at one o'clock in the afternoon . ''