Show LORD lonn COMPACT arom the wl 0 flotd I 1 4 tired with the cold or of 3 yes ca I 1 wast ai glad to taka the 0 of a hot bath before I 1 turned in and here a most moat remarkable thing happened to mo moso so remarkable that I 1 ewt dimit tell tho the story froni from tho the ber nal g after I 1 lef lck the high school ewt with 0 my most intimate friend to attend the classes in the university there was no divinity clasil clam but frequently in our walls walks wo dibela ed and speculated upon many many rave vo subject samong among others on tho the oft ol 01 the e goal and on A future this question noil and tho the fao ability ibi lity I 1 will not BOC fay eay of gho hoh walking out but of tho the dead 9 to the living were subjects of much auch speculation specula ula tion grid we actually commuted committed the folly of drawing up in an agreement written with our b blood I 1 that whichever of us died first should appear to the other and thus solve tiny any doubts wt we hire have entertained of tho the life after death after we had finith cd our mr clat blawa sell at the 0 went cut to india bill t h havin av i tot 9 0 t an there in the civil eien ice H seldom wrote te to me and alter after the lapso of a few w y years cars I 1 had almost for kottan him bin moreover hn big fatally famy having little connection with wilh Edia borg I 1 seldom new K or heard anything of the them so an that all tho the school boy intimacy had died out oat and I 1 had nearly dearly forgotten hia bill existence I 1 1 lial I taken lalen as I 1 bare taid aid I 1 a 4 warm bath whilo while lying in it find and enjoying g the comfort or of the alic heat alter after the late freezing I 1 hail had undergone I 1 turned my lead head around looking toward the chair on which I 1 deposited my cloth clothed eq as all I 1 was wall about to get et out of the bath on the chair wit rat 0 looking calmly fit at me inc how flow I 1 got out of he bath I 1 know not nor but bat on recovering my senses I 1 found myself sprawling on the floor the ap p piri brition tion or whatever it nil h ais hat bit had taken the of if U G hail bail disappeared disa a d the iiron produced such bodi a 3 inocel abat that I 1 lad bid no inclination to talk about it even to stuart but the lie imbres tion ion it made bade upon me wan too vivid to ii be eaily oily forgotten anil and 0 o strongly was waa 1 I affected 1 ly by it that I 1 live litre written down the whole bito bi b to with the date lath ot it Ne december Omber tina and all the particulars a ai they hey are now freih lefore before me no doubt I 1 hall had fallen asleep and that the ppe appe ranc aranzo presented sto fa distinctly to my eyes waa a dreim im I 1 cannot fori lor moment doubt yet for years 1 bad no communication wilh 0 nor had there been e 0 anything O to recall rei all lim him to my recollection lection nothing ind had taken alace loce if during u r 10 our S swedish edish travels either cither con connected t ea with 0 or with null india or with anything relating to litto hii norto orto any member of of b hia Is fa m roily F I 1 recollected reco cc and c e 1 quickly luick a ic k ard ly y e enough u b 0 our n r olad old discussion n and t tho h 0 b bargain gain wo we had bail made I 1 could not discharge from my mind the impression that thang fj must have died and that bis big appearance to we me was to be received by mo a 3 proof fir of a future state otate yet all the while I 1 tint that the whole was IWAS a dream and so fo painfully rain fulty vivid and so eo unfading was wag tho the impression that I 1 could not bring my myself elf to talk of it or milia make the allusion all union to it il f I 1 finished dressing and aeve as we had agreed agre cito to make an early start I 1 was ready by 6 the hour olour of our early breakfast the sequel to the above recorded more than sixty years after the ike blood written compact was wag made runs thus BELOu Omm M oct ac W 1661 1 I bare ja just it been copying oat ff from ona T kiy y jy the be account of this strange fi dream berti sainta mortis imago I 1 and now to flais th the story begun above sixty years since soon after roy my return retura from kain burgh there arrived a letter from india announcing G a death and stating elating that he be had bad died on tho the of december singular coincidence i yet when 0 ono no r reflects c on the he vast tast number of dreams which night after debt passi pam I 1 through brough our brains tho the number of co coincidences m c id aro ard perhaps fewer and bells remarkable than a fair c of character would warrant us to lo expect nor is t surprising coni considering dering tho the variety of our thoughts in bleep bleed and that tant they off au bear some analogy to lo C tho ho tiff altmira airs of life that a dream should some sometimes imes coincide with till a contemporaneous or even with a future event this is act much more wonderful etrul than that a person whom vr we 0 had no remon reason to evrie expect evriett ct should appear aphea r to us as at tho the very moment when wo we lad had lipen been or speaking of him so common ii chiq thi that it has baa grown into speak of alie danl etc t the greit critic lawyer and states man maa it um 10 perceived under undertook liy reason to dissipate th the 0 1 concett tion pion of if tho the divinity that aliat wai haq within lim him lut but he could not dichario di chargo froni from im film tho the that lui friend ffriend bad died child and that LIB his appearance was to lit be as a proof of a future plate no lo 10 tried to colinco corn con inco himsel that it vaa all a dran yet hu his interior permit endy accepted the impression as a one of the iho realities of the outer infinite site a proof of existence in ia the limitless be TonJ I 1 wo aro are such stuff as i ra a are made of saith the great ecat bard barc I 1 but nono none of us tu in in advance can tell whit what dreams may conic when we have shuffled off this mortal morau coll coil many will incline to the op opinion illion that flat it is caiar and safer to uee a liolu solution tiona of this mysterious appearance in question upon apon psychological principles than on chance or accidental dreams drca ens |