er came up, hand in hand, looking more real than any
of the rest. Their figures vanished, and they seemed to have become a
part of me; for I felt all at once the longing to live over the life they
had led, on the sea and in strange countries.

"Another figure was just like the one we called the Major, who was a very
strong, hearty-looking man, and who is said to have drank hard sometimes,
though there is nothing about it on his tombstone, which I used to read
in the graveyard. It seemed to me that there was something about his
life that I did not want to make a part of mine, but that there was some
right he had in me through my being of his blood, and so his health and
his strength went all through me, and I was always to have what was left
of his life in that shadow-like shape, forming a portion of mine.

"So in the same way with the shape answering to the portrait of that
famous beauty who was the wife of my great-grandfather, and used to be
called the Pride of the County.

"And so too with another figure which had the face of that portrait
marked on the back, Ruth Bradford, who married one of my ancestors, and
was before the court, as I have heard, in the time of the witchcraft
trials.

"There was with the rest a dark, wild-looking woman, with a head-dress of
feathers. She kept as it were in shadow, but I saw something of my own
features in her face.

"It was on my mind very strongly that the shape of that woman of our
blood who was burned long ago by the Papists came very close to me, and
was in some way made one with mine, and that I feel her presence with me
since, as if she lived again in me; but not always,--only at times,--and
then I feel borne up as if I could do anything in the world. I had a
feeling as if she were my guardian and protector.

"It seems to me that these, and more, whom I have not mentioned, do
really live over some part of their past lives in my life. I do not
understand it all, and perhaps it can be accounted for in some way I have
not thought of. I write it down as nearly as I can give it from memory,
by request, and if it is printed at this time had rather have all the
real names withheld.

"MYRTLE HAZARD."

NOTE BY THE FRIEND.

"This statement must be accounted for in some way, or pass into the
category of the supernatural. Probably it was one of those intuitions,
with objective projection, which sometimes come to imaginative young
persons, especially girls, in certain