It was about nine o'clock in the evening. Lord Adare, the Master of Lindsay, and a Captain Wynne were sitting with Home at a table when Lindsay suddenly began shouting, "Good heavens! It is too fearful."
"What is?" Adare asked.
It is too horrible; a spirit says I must tell you.. He is coming out of the window of the next room and coming in at this window.
The windows were seven above the ground, and a gap of more than seven feet separated them. So Lindsay's idea seemed physically impossible, and when Home sent out of the room th ry to stop him Then they heard a window lifted in the next room, and almost immediately they saw Home.
He was floating upright in the ai outside their window.
He remained like that for a few seconds, then he lifted up the window sash and floated feet foremost into the room, where he sat down.
They all went into the next room, Bnd found the window was much too harrowly opened to allow anybody to pass through, Home leaned back and floated out "quite horizontal" and "apparently rigid," and this time came back through the same window Home said he felt as if he had gone through some fearful peril, that he had a horrible desire to throw himself out of the window. He was extremely nervous and on edge for several days, for his experiences always left him exhausted He died at fifty-three, in 1886.
"His history," says the "Diction of National Biography," "presents a curious and as yet unsolved problem.
The suggestion that women and children should be armed in order that they may protect themselves against the invader has had a mixed reception in Britain. Some people who should be in a position to judge declare that grenades, for instance, in the hands of women and children might be more deadly to themselves than to an enemy. As it happens, the same idea was discussed at the time the threatened Napoleonic in-
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