An account

Mrs. B. described me as being in white, and I asked her what I had on my head. She said, ' A thing like this ' — taking hold of a woollen cap which I had given her. It was the fac-simile of one which I must have had on at the time ; and they were not common, for I had knitted them of wool and of a particular shape. Mrs. Bedford has had one other hallucination, when she saw the figure of a young grandchild standing by her bedside. This, however, happened at night, and may have been half a dream. When Mrs. Bedford described her experience to the present writer, she did not use the word curtain, and she did not recall the remark about the stuff not being long enough ; which suggested that these items might have crept into the narrative after Mrs. Gladstone's side of the affair had been related. Mr. Bedford is, however, positive that they formed part of what his wife told him at the time, and before he saw Mrs. Gladstone ; and Mrs. Gladstone is equally positive that they were included in his account to her, and also that she has herself heard of them from Mrs. Bedford. The next example is from Colonel Bigge, of 2, Morpeth Terrace, S.W., who took the account out of a sealed envelope, in my presence, for the first time since it was written on the day of the occurrence. (262) An account of a circumstance which occurred to me when quartered at Templemore, Co. Tipperary, on 20 February, 1847. This afternoon, about 3 o'clock p.m., I was walking from my quarters towards the mess-room to put some letters into the letter-box, when I distinctly saw Lieut. -Colonel Reed, 70th Regiment, walking from the corner of the range of buildings occupied by the officers towards the messroom door ; and I saw him go into the passage. He was dressed in a brown shooting jacket, with grey summer regulation tweed trousers, and had a fishing rod and a landing-net in his hand. Although at the time I saw him he was about 15 or 20 yards from me, and although anxious to speak to him at the moment, I did not do so, but followed him into the passage and turned into the ante-room on the left-hand side, where I expected to find him. On opening the door, to my great surprise, he was not there ; the only person in the room was Quartermaster Nolan, 70th Regiment, and I immediately asked him if he had seen the colonel, and he replied he had not ; upon which I said, ' I suppose he has gone upstairs,' and I immediately left the room. Thinking he might have gone upstairs to one of the officer's rooms, I listened at the bottom of the stairs and then went