An account

I cannot remember having actually seen anything else, though I have always had strange presentiments. The friends who had charge of me in those days are both dead, and they are about the only persons I 1 This case was procured through the kindness of Mr. Andrew Lang, who gave a fairly correct, though fourth-hand, version of it in his article on Apparitions, in the Encycloxxedia Brittanica. ^ As to the appearance of more than one figure, see Vol. i., pp. 545-6. IV.] ''BORDERLAND'' GASES. 457 can remember who could have known of the vision before the sad news arrived. I was perfectly clear as to the date ; as the previoios day I had been to a pic-nic ; and that date they all remembered being the 30th of May [a Saturday]. It was the following morning I saw my father. The first news of the Mutiny that reached us must have been much later. I had no reason whatever to feel the least anxious about my father.