note of the date at the time so as to tell him of it when next I
wrote. My letter reached Sarno a day or two after he died. There is
no possible doubt about the voice being his, for he had a peculiar
and uncommon voice, one such as I never heard any exactly like, or
like at all in any other person. And in life he used to call me
through the window as he passed, so I would know who it was knocked
at the door, and open it. When he said, '_Ah!_' after death, it
was so awfully sad and long drawn out, and as if expressing that now
all was over and our separation and his being dead was all so very,
very pitiful and unutterable; the sigh was so real, so almost
_solid_, and discernible and unmistakable, till at the end it
seemed to have such a supernatural, strange, awful dying-away sound,
a sort of fading, retreating into distance sound, that gave the
impression that it was not _quite all_ spirit, but that the
spirit had some sort of visible and half-material being or
condition. This was especially so the night of the fog, when the
voice seemed nearer to me as I stood there, and as if it was able to
come or stay nearer to me because there _was_ a fog to hide its
materialism. On each of the other occasions it seemed to keep a good
deal further off than on that night, and always sounded as if at an
elevation of about 10ft. or 11ft. from the ground, except the night
of the fog, when it came down on a _level_ with me as well as
nearer.

"Georgina F----."

Chapter II.

Lord Brougham's Testimony.

When we come to the question of the apparition pure and simple, one of
the best-known leading cases is that recorded by Lord Brougham, who was
certainly one of the hardest-headed persons that ever lived, a Lord
Chancellor, trained from his youth up to weigh evidence. The story is
given as follows in the first volume of "Lord Brougham's Memoirs":--

"A most remarkable thing happened to me, so remarkable that I must tell
the story from the beginning. After I left the High School I went with
G----, my most intimate friend, to attend the classes in the University.
There was no divinity class, but we frequently in our walks discussed
many grave subjects--among others, the immortality of the soul and a
future state. This question, and the possibility of the dead appearing
to the living, were subjects of much speculation, and we actually
com