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 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''