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INTRODUCTION

were all dog tired and overtaxed, but it is an extraordinary thing that the same phenomenon should be witnessed by so many different people.

"I myself am absolutely convinced that I saw these horsemen; and I feel sure that they did not exist only in my imagination. I do not attempt to explain the mystery—I only state facts."

The writer of this letter is a lieutenant-colonel and a member of a distinguished order of knighthood. I must suppose myself to be asked the questions: "What do you make of the Lieutenant-Colonel's evidence? And what do you make of the Lance-Corporal's evidence?" These are questions that I have asked myself. The answer to both is simple, but quite unsatisfactory: I don't know what to make of these two pieces of evidence. I have a theory, which I hold in a quite tentative manner, without any degree of

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