all the details are as real to my mind as any other incidents of my
life. The only obvious deduction is, that I was made the recipient of
a communication of the kind which the world is accustomed to regard as
supernatural.

Mr. Owen's publishers have my full permission to appropriate this story
in the next edition of his "Debatable Land between this World and the
Next." Should they do so, their readers will doubtless be favoured with
an elaborate analysis of the facts, and with a pseudo-philosophic
theory about spiritual communion with human beings. My wife, who is an
enthusiastic student of electro-biology, is disposed to believe that
Weatherley's mind, overweighted by the knowledge of his forgery, was in
some occult manner, and unconsciously to himself, constrained to act
upon my own senses. I prefer, however, simply to narrate the facts. I
may or may not have my own theory about those facts. The reader is at
perfect liberty to form one of his own if he so pleases. I may mention
that Dr. Marsden professes to believe to the present day that my mind
was disordered by the approach of the fever which eventually struck me
down, and that all I have described was merely the result of what he,
with delightful periphrasis, calls "an abnormal condition of the
system, induced by causes too remote for specific diagnosis."

It will be observed that, whether I was under an hallucination or not,
the information supposed to be derived from my uncle was strictly
accurate in all its details. The fact that the disclosure subsequently
became unnecessary through the confession of Weatherley does not seem
to me to afford any argument for the hallucination theory. My uncle's
communication was important at the time when it was given to me; and we
have no reason for believing that "those who are gone before" are
universally gifted with a knowledge of the future.