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forted our little adopted orphan with all that love could give her. Three days afterwards I went to Rochdale, and saw Mr. Grayson and told him all the story, omitting all mention of the dream. He produced me the parcel of deeds which contained all the proofs wanted to show that Ralph Jackson was a nephew of Mary Jack son who married Ainsworth; the proofs were in the shape of a declaration made by an old servant of the family, and certificates of birth, marriage and death annexed to the declara tion; more complete proof could not have been desired. Before I left Mr. Grayson's office he said to me, " As a matter of curiosity how did you come to trace these documents to my office?" "Ralph Jackson told me himself a month since that I should find them here." "' Told you himself a month since! ' Why, on your own statement a month since Ralph Jackson was on board ship on his voy age home, and you were at Georgetown, for you wrote to me from there just a month since; surely you are making some mistake." son," "There said I are "which someit mysteries, is beyond Mr. our power Grayto fathom, shrewd lawyers though we may both of us be. Ц I had commenced my cor respondence with you by telling you that it had been revealed to me in a dream that this evidence was to be found in your office, you

would have put me down for a lunatic; yet here is the evidence, and I can give you my most solemn assurance that neither by letter nor vivo ore did Ralph Jackson tell me that I should find it here; it was revealed to me in a dream." "Dreams are strange things, Mr. Borret," said Mr. Grayson, " but we know they are not legal evidence as yet; tell me your dream." I told him all about it, showing him the entry made in my pocketbook at the exact date, and I told him how all the circumstances which I had seen in my dream, and the words spoken by Ralph Jackson on his deathbed had been confirmed by the ship's surgeon. Mr. Grayson said it was the strangest thing that had ever come to his knowledge during the whole of his fifty years of practice. I was able to prove Margaret's claim to the full satisfaction of the Duchy authorities, and the money was vested in trustees for her benefit; and so she turned out a wealthy heiress after all, though her poor father had died broken down with his hard struggle against poverty and want in a strange land. Now, after twenty years, I have her full permission to tell the story of how her for tune was recovered for her by the means of a revelation from the land of shadows, com municated to me in the course of a Sunday afternoon nap. t