But the dream returned, with aggravated circumstances which made it fearful to the poor girl.

On the second occasion the icy hand of her godfather was laid upon her shoulder, causing her the most horrible distress, an indefinable sensation.

"You must obey the dead," he said, in a sepulchral voice.
"Tears," said Ursula, relating her dreams, "fell from his white, wide-open eyes." The third time the vision came the dead man took her by the braids of her long hair and showed her the post master talking with Goupil and promising money if he would remove Ursula to Sens.

Ursula then decided to relate the three dreams to the Abbe Chaperon.
"Monsieur l'abbe," she said, "do you believe that the dead reappear ?" "My child, sacred history, profane history, and modern history, have much testimony to that effect; but the Church has never made it an article of faith; and as for science, in France science laughs at the idea." "What do _you_ believe ?" "That the power of God is infinite." "Did my godfather ever speak to you of such matters ?" "Yes, often.

He had entirely changed his views of them.