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"A. M. Bickford - Smith."

We received a substantially similar account from Mrs. Bickford - Smith's brother - in - law, Mr. H. A. Smith, who was a witness of the trouble taken to find the brooch, both at the hotel, and by sending to Swan & Edgars, on the previous evening.

Yet here, be it observed, Mrs. Bickford - Smith had not had an opportunity of herself inspecting the scene of the loss. Had she returned to Swan & Edgar's before the dream, it is possible that the sight of the books on the table might have revived some recollection of seeing the brooch between the leaves of the Queen.

In the next case we cannot absolutely prove that Mrs. Yates did not put the photographs in the drawer herself - or casually see that a parcel was in the drawer, if some one else put them there - but the fact of the long search, of the refusal to believe the dream, makes this explanation dubious. I may add that Mrs. Yates (known to Mr. Gurney and myself) has had other experiences - of a telepathic or clairvoyant kind.

From Mrs. Yates, 44 Montpelier Road, Brighton, 1884:-

"About five years since I had sent me, by a friend, some unmounted photographs of "The Stations of the Cross," taken in miniature from frescoes at Rome, with the request that after inspection I would immediately return them, as they were valued. I placed them in an envelope, and, as I thought, in the secretaire, but on finishing a letter in which I intended to return them, to my dismay, they were nowhere to be found. We searched unceasingly, but fruitlessly. I submitted meekly to reproofs for my carelessness, and so the matter passed out of thought.

"More than a twelvemonth after I dreamt i took out a top short drawer in a wardrobe that stood in a then unused dressing-room, and found the little pictures. It will naturally be asked, ' Did you not, the first thing in the morning, ascertain whether your dream had anything in it, by removing the drawer?' I did not I mentioned it to my family, but it had no special interest for them, and it was no more thought of; but several months after, on the removal of the wardrobe to another part of the house, the drawers being taken out to lighten it, there, snugly enough, lay the envelope and the little pictures! I have them mounted and framed."

The wife of the Rev. W. F. Brand, Emorton, Harford Co., Maryland, writes as follows, under date Findowsay, 29th March, 1884:-

"Mr. Brand asked me one day to give him the 100 dollars that he had given me to put away for him. I felt startled, for I did not remember that he had given them to me. However, I went to the place where I usually put money and looked. It was not there. I looked in several other not improbable places, but could not find it. By degrees I searched in every drawer, and box, and corner, likely or even impossible, but without success. Night came and I had not found it. I was much disturbed, for the loss was a large one for us; but even more than for the loss we were concerned at the thought of any one about me having taken it. Before going to bed I prayed very earnestly that I might find it; or, if not, that suspicion might not fall upon an innocent person. In the course of the night I dreamt that I found the money in the middle of a bundle of shawls that had been put away during the summer, and carefully wrapped up for protection against moths. In my daylight mind this place seemed to me an absurd one to look in, but my dream impressed me a good deal, and I unfastened the shawls (1 think they were sewed up), and there was the lost treasure.

"I should like to say whether my dream wakened me in the night, but I do not remember. I did not look until the morning. I never have been able to recall the fact of my putting the money away, nor, indeed, of Mr. Brand giving it into my care, although it was an unusual thing for him to do in those days."

Then here are three cases where it seems quite impossible to suppose that the seekers supraliminal consciousness was ever aware of the lost article's position.

From Mrs. Crellin, 62 Hilldrop Crescent, N.1

1884.

"When a school girl I one day foolishly removed from my French teacher's hand a ring, which I, in fun, transferred to my own. On removing it from my finger just before going to bed, I found that a stone had fallen out of the ring, and I was much troubled about it, especially as the ring had been given to my teacher. We had four class-rooms, and'as I had been moving from one to another in the course of the evening, I could not hope to find the lost stone. I, however, in my dreams that night saw the stone lying cm a certain plank in the floor of our 'drilling-room,' and on awaking I dressed hastily and went direct to the spot marked in my dream, and recovered the lost stone. This narrative has nothing thrilling in it, but its simplicity and exactness may commend it to your notice."

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Mr. Gurney adds:-

"In conversation with me, Mrs. Crellin described the four class-rooms as good sized rooms, which it would have taken a long time to search over. She had been about in all of them in the course of the evening. She is positive that she went quite straight to the spot She is an excellent witness."

Mrs. J. Windsor Stuart of Foley House, Rothesay, N.B. - well known to me - contributes a similar experience, but with the additional point of interest that the ring was seen, not as it must have looked when searched for, but glistening with dew, as it actually was at the time of the dream. The incident is remote; but Mr. Stuart remembers being told of the incident in the same form much nearer the actual date.

"30thJanuary,1892.

"In the early autumn of 1864, my father (the late Captain Wm. Campbell) was living at Snettisham,

Norfolk. We had a croquet party. Among the guests was a young man, George Gambier (nephew of the late artist Mr. Gambier Parry), at the time an agricultural pupil of the late Mr. Charles Preedy, agent on the Hunstanton estate. As Mr. Gambier was about to mount his horse and ride home, he suddenly said, '1 have lost the opal out of my ring. I would not have done this for the world; it belonged to my father. I remember seeing it as I rang the bell on arriving, so that it must have dropped out since I came here.' We all set to work to hunt for the stone by walking up and down the lawn in line, but without success.