horse
free to gallop home alone, they decamped across the country to their own
cottage."

The story then relates how George Northey's vessel left St. Helena the
next day after the dream, and reached Plymouth in due time. George carried
with him a very vivid recollection of his vision on the return voyage,
and never doubted for an instant that his brother had been actually
murdered in the manner and by the persons named, as seen in the vision. He
carried with him the determination to bring the villains to justice and
was filled with the conviction that through his efforts retribution would
fall upon the murderers.

In England, justice was at work--but the missing link was needed. The
crime aroused universal horror and indignation, and the authorities left
nothing undone in the direction of discovering the murderers and bringing
them to justice. Two brothers named Hightwood were suspected, and in their
cottage were found blood-stained garments. But no pistol was found,
although the younger brother admitted having owned but lost one. They were
arrested and brought before the magistrates. The evidence against them was
purely circumstantial, and not any too strong at that; but their actions
were those of guilty men. They were committed for trial. Each confessed,
in hopes of saving his life and obtaining imprisonment instead. But both
were convicted and sentenced to be hanged. There was doubt in the minds of
some, however, about the pistol. The story continues:

"Before the execution, George Northey arrived from St. Helena, and
declared that the pistol was in the thatch of the old cottage close by the
place where they had murdered Hart Northey, and where they had hid it.
'How do you know?' he was asked. George replied: 'I saw the foul deed
committed in a dream I had the night of the murder, when at St. Helena.'
The pistol was found, as George Northey had predicted, in the thatch of
the ruined cottage." Investigation revealed that the details of the crime
were identical with those seen in the vision.

It is a fact known to all occultists that many persons frequently travel
in the astral body during sleep; and in many cases retain a faint
recollection of some of the things they have seen and heard during their
travels in the astral. Nearly everyone knows the experience of waking up
in the morning feeling physically tired and "used up;" in some cases a dim
recollection of walking or working during the dream being had. Who am