"What is your last name, Laura Ann?"

"My name is Vandermeer."

Dee asked, "Laura, why are you here?"

"Richard told me to stay in the room until he got back. He told me that there were obnoxious men in the lobby and on the street, and I was only safe if I stayed in the room."

"Hasn’t Richard ever come back?"

"No. He said that he would be gone a little while, but he hasn’t returned yet. He’s been gone for such a long time and I’ve been so lonely and worried."

"Do you think that something could have happened to him? There is a possibility that something happened to him and he passed away and can’t come back to you," Dee suggested.

"Richard told me to stay in the room until he got back and that’s what I’m going to do," the young woman flatly stated.

"Why did you come to Skagway?" Dee asked.

"Richard came to get rich and he wanted to marry me. So, I came up here to get married to him. I love him very much."

Again Dee said, "Laura, what happened to you in this room? Did somebody hurt you, or were you sick or something?"

After she thought a while, Laura answered, "AfterRichard left I did get sick. I remember being very hot and then very cold and my chest hurt. I had trouble breathing. Then very suddenly I was fine. No more pain or trouble. I didn’t even cough anymore. I was just cold all the time."

Dee was in a quandary as to how to tell this gentle soul that her physical body no longer existed, and she tried to explain the best she could.

"I don’t believe you! How could I be dead?" she snapped. "I’m talking to you right now!"

Dee went on to explain that Laura was using Bobbie’s physical body to speak to all of them. She looked at Bobbie’s face, and it seemed to be relaxed in deep thought. Then Laura’s voice came tumbling out, "Oh my goodness! What am I to do? What am I to do now?"

Dee said that Bobbie’s body was reacting to the emotion, and she was almost crying. So she tried the best she knew to explain to the spirit that they would help her find Richard.

Laura’s voice, through Bobbie, asked in a fearful way, "But how am I going to do that? How do I know where I’m going?"

Dee thought about this for awhile, for she honestly had no more idea how a soul left this plane of existence and went on to the other than Laura did. But she did know that usually the process was almost automatic. So perhaps the use of concentration and imagination on the part of the three of them just might do it.

So Dee said to the spirit, "We’ll help you Laura. Just concentrate on going to your Richard and we’ll help you get to the right place."