“I sent for the magistrate who would act as coroner, and desired him to examine Mr. ----’s wife and servants as to whether Mr. ---- had left his home, or could possibly have left it without their knowledge, between eleven and one on the previous night. The result of the inquest showed he died of some form of heart disease, and had not, and could not have left the house without the knowledge of at least his wife, if not of his servants. Not wishing to air my ‘spiritual experience’ for the benefit of the press or the public, I kept the matter at the time to myself, only mentioning it to my Puisne Judge and to one or two friends; but when I got home to tiffin I asked my wife to tell me as nearly as she could remember what I had said to her during the night, and I made a brief note of her replies and of the facts. “As I said then, so I say now--I was not asleep, but wide awake. After a lapse of nine years my memory is quite clear on the subject. I have not the least doubt, I saw the man--have not the least doubt that the conversation took place between us. “I may add that I had examined the butler in the morning--who had given me back the MS. in the envelope when I went to the court after breakfast--as to whether he had locked the door as usual, and if any one could have got in. He said that he had done everything as usual, adding that no one could have got in if even he had not _locked_ the door, as there was no handle outside--which there was not. I examined the coolies and other servants, who all said they opened the door as usual that morning--turned the key and undid the chains, and I have no doubt they spoke the truth. The servants’ apartments were separated from the house, but communicated with it by the gallery at the back, some distance from the entrance hall. “The reporter’s residence was about a mile and a quarter from where I lived, and his infirmities prevented him from walking any distance except slowly; in fact, he almost invariably drove. “EDMUND HORNBY.”