my incompetency. I have no consciousness of what happened after this
feeling of unsubstantiality came upon me.'

"Next morning, A. experienced the stiffness and soreness of violent bodily
exercise, and was informed by his wife that in the course of the night he
had much alarmed her by striking out again and again in a terrific manner,
'as if fighting for his life.' He, in turn, informed her of his dream, and
begged her to remember the names of those actors in it who were known to
him. On the morning of the following day (Wednesday) A. received a letter
from his agent, who resided in the town close to the scene of the dream,
informing him that his tenant had been found on Tuesday morning at Major
N.M.'s gate, speechless and apparently dying from a fracture of the
skull, and that there was no trace of the murderers.

"That night A. started for the town, and arrived there on Thursday
morning. On his way to a meeting of magistrates, he met the senior
magistrate of that part of the country, and requested him to give orders
for the arrest of the three men whom, besides H.W., he had recognized in
his dream, and to have them examined separately. This was at once done.
The three men gave identical accounts of the occurrence, and all named the
woman who was with them. She was then arrested and gave precisely similar
testimony. They said that between eleven and twelve on the Monday night
they had been walking homewards altogether along the road, when they were
overtaken by three strangers, two of whom savagely assaulted H.W., while
the other prevented his friends from interfering. H.W. did not die, but
was never the same man afterwards; he subsequently emigrated."

Stead, the English editor and psychical researcher, relates the following
case, which he accepts as truthful and correct, after careful
investigation of the circumstances and of the character and reputation of
the person relating it. The story proceeds as follows:

"St. Eglos is situated about ten miles from the Atlantic, and not quite so
far from the old market town of Trebodwina. Hart and George Northey were
brothers, and from childhood their lives had been marked by the strongest
brotherly affection. Hart and George Northey had never been separated
from their birth until George became a sailor, Hart meantime joining his
father in business. On the 8th of February, 1840, while George Northey's
ship was lying in port at St. Helena, he had the following strange dream: