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Elizabeth Membrey [the deceased] was my dearest friend, and was more to me than a sister, but was no relation to me — only my clear friend. I think the bond of sympathy was very strong between us; only death could break it. We told our troubles to one another ; for years past we did not do anything without talking about it first. Mr. Reggy was the son of the lady where we lived in service together, and she was very fond of him, and he went to the infirmary to see her as often as he could find time. The medical superintendent of the Chelsea Infirmary writes to us : — I find that Elizabeth Membrey was in this Infirmary from July 15th until October 18th, 1881, when she died. In conversation, Mrs. Stent (a sensible and sober-minded witness) said that she marked the time of her experience as 4.30, as she heard the half-hour strike just after she got up, and did not sleep again. In her later written account she said that the porter told her the time of death 414 BORDERLAND GASES. [chap. was 20 minutes to 4. But this seems to have been a slip ; as she has found and handed to us a post-card, written to her by Mr. R. W. Craigie (the Reggy of the narrative) on the day of the death, as shown by the post-mark — which gives the time as 4.30. Mrs. Stent further mentioned that she was not expecting the death — that her friend had seemed cheerful, and it was thought that she would leave the hospital. She was suffering from an old injury to the base of the skull. | 6. I pass now to the cases where the sense of sight alone was concerned. The first instance was thus narrated by the Bishop of Carlisle, in the Contemporary Review for January, 1884. (159) A Cambridge student, my informant, had arranged, some years ago, with a fellow student that they should meet together in Cambridge at a certain time for the purpose of reading. A short time before going up to keep his appointment, my informant was in the South of England. Waking in the night, he saw, as he imagined, his friend sitting at the foot of his bed. He was surprised at the sight, the more so as his friend was dripping with water. He spoke, but the apparition (for so it seems to have been) only shook its head and disappeared. This appearance of the absent friend occurred twice during the night. Information was soon received that shortly before the time of the apparition being seen by the young student, his friend had been drowned whilst bathing. Having learned that the Bishop's informant was Archdeacon Farler, we applied to this gentleman, who wrote to us on