It was totally impossible for him to know those details, yet he has described them with the clarity of an eye-witness--and with what unassailable truthfulness God knows I know!" I saved the colonial mansion for the last night, and solidified and perpetuated Dr.Peake's conversion with the cannon-ball hole.

He explained to the house that I could never have heard of that small detail, which differentiated this mansion from all other Virginian mansions and perfectly identified it, therefore the fact stood proven that I had _seen_ it in my vision.

Lawks! It is curious.

When the magician's engagement closed there was but one person in the village who did not believe in mesmerism, and I was the one.

All the others were converted, but I was to remain an implacable and unpersuadable disbeliever in mesmerism and hypnotism for close upon fifty years.