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his wife that he should return by the train due at Torre 

 Station at a certain hour, and suggested that she might, 

 with their two children, walk up to meet him, which she 

 agreed to do. On the return journey there was in the 

 same carriage with him a gentleman who had known Mrs. 

 Hazelwood for several years, and who knew her children also. 

 It should be remarked that the family were in mourning, and 

 that the children were a boy and a girl, the former being the 

 older. At Newton Station Mr. Hazelwood bought a news- 

 paper, and was reading it during the remainder of the journey. 

 He had, for a time, forgotten the arrangement made with his 

 wife, and he states that he certainly had not spoken of it to 

 any one. As the train drew near Torre Station his com- 

 panion said, ' There's Mrs. Hazelwood and your two children 

 standing on the bank.' He at once looked in the direction 

 indicated, and distinctly saw a party, which he had not the 

 least doubt were his wife and boy and girl, standing on the 

 hedge or bank, which, under Chapel Hill, overlooks the rail- 

 way. On leaving the station, instead of walking towards 

 Torquay, he went in the opposite direction, on the Newton 

 Road, to join them. On his way he met a man who had 

 known Mrs. Hazelwood from her childhood, and who volun- 

 teered the remark, ' You are going to join your wife and 

 family, I suppose. They are just above here, standing on the 

 hedge.' He proceeded to the spot, and to his surprise found 

 the party had left, and were nowhere to be seen. After some 

 fruitless search he proceeded to his own house, and found 

 his family just starting to meet him at the station, they 

 having forgotten the hour at which the train was due. Not- 

 withstanding the fact that three persons, who knew them well, 

 were prepared to swear that they had seen Mrs. Hazelwood 

 and her children at a particular spot, notwithstanding the 

 further fact that this was just the spot where they had 

 previously, and without the knowledge of two of the witnesses, 

 agreed to be at the time, it was not a fact that Mrs. Hazel- 

 wood and her children had on that day been standing on the 

 hedge overlooking the railway near the station at Torre." 

 This is one of a large class of appearances termed 



