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look, and said: "I am so glad too that my sister is with him." They saw the whole outfit most distinctly, and the dress and attitude of the two people. The carriage passed the window at a gentle pace and turned round the corner of the house where it could no longer be seen. After a minute, Mr. Coe went to the door and exclaimed: "Why, what can be the matter? They have gone on without calling, a thing they never did in their lives before." Five minutes later, as they were sitting wondering by the fire, the daughter of the travellers, a robust, healthy lady, about twenty-five years of age, entered the room, pale and excited, and immediately exclaimed: "Oh, Aunt, I have had such a fright! Father and Mother have passed me on the road without speaking. I looked up at them as they passed by, but they looked straight on and never stopped nor said a word. A quarter of an hour before, when I started to walk here, they were sitting by the fire; and now, what can be the matter? They never turned nor spoke, and yet I am certain they must have seen me." Ten minutes later, Mr. Mountford, who was again looking out of the window, saw the same two people in the same carriage driving the same horse; and he said: "But see, here they are, coming down the road again." His host exclaimed: "No, that is impossible, because there is no turning they could have taken to get on to the road again. But, sure enough, here they are, and with the same horse! How in the world have they got here?" They all stood at the window and watched the same appearance they had seen before, the same horse, carriage and its occupants pass before them. They ran to the door and at once cross-questioned the travellers, but no satisfactory explanation was forthcoming. The travellers said that, when their daughter left the house, they had no intention of going