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obstinacy. Like the famous politician, I can easily change my theory on the production of further and fuller and more demonstrative evidence.

This theory is that the visions, both of the corporal and the colonel, were the hallucinations of men utterly worn out and exhausted, both in body and mind. There is an alternative theory which is implied in the following letter written to The Evening News by Lance-Corporal A. Johnstone, late of the Royal Engineers. His letter appeared in The Evening News of August 11th:—

"We had almost reached the end of the retreat, and, after marching a whole day and night with but one half-hour's rest in between, we found ourselves on the outskirts of Langy, near Paris, just at dawn, and as day broke we saw in front of us large bodies of cavalry, all formed