"'At six o'clock I began dressing the children, beginning at the bed furthest from the one in which I slept. Presently I came to the bed over which I had seen the light hovering. I took the little boy out, placed him on my knee, and put on some of his clothes. The child had been talking with the others; suddenly he was silent. And then, looking me hard in the face with an extraordinary expression, he said, "Oh, Mr. Jupp, my mother came to me last night. Did you see her?" For a moment I could not answer the child. I then thought it better to pass it off, and said, "Come, we must make haste, or we shall be late for breakfast."' "The child never afterwards referred to the matter, we are told, nor has it since ever been mentioned to him. The Warden says it is a mystery to him; he simply states the fact and there leaves the matter, being perfectly satisfied that he was mistaken in no one particular." In answer to inquiries, the Rev. C. Jupp writes to us:-- "THE ORPHANAGE AND CONVALESCENT HOME, ABERLOUR, CRAIGELLACHIE, _November_ 13_th_, 1883. "I fear anything the little boy might now say would be unreliable, or I would at once question him. Although the matter was fully discussed at the time, it was never mentioned in the hearing of the child; and yet when, at the request of friends, the account was published in our little magazine, and the child read it, his countenance changed, and looking up, he said, 'Mr. Jupp, that is me.' I said, 'Yes, that is what we saw.' He said, 'Yes,' and then seemed to fall into deep thought, evidently with pleasant remembrances, for he smiled so sweetly to himself, and seemed to forget I was present. "I much regret now that I did not learn something from the child at the time. "CHAS. JUPP." In answer to inquiries, Mr. Jupp says that he has never had any other hallucination of the senses; and adds:-- "My wife was the only person of _adult age_ to whom I mentioned the circumstance at the time. Shortly after, I mentioned it to our Bishop and Primus." Mrs. Jupp writes, from the Orphanage, on June 23, 1886:-- "This is to certify that the account of the light seen by the Warden of this establishment is correct, and was mentioned to me at the time"--_i.e._, next morning. It is to be regretted that it is not now possible to ascertain whether the child's experience were of the nature of a dream or a borderland hallucination. But the ambiguity does not affect either the interpretation or the significance of the incident.