How do you account for it all, Harley ?' "'I account for it in this way, Charley.

The opium naturally had the effect of making us both dream, and as we took similar doses of the same mixture, under similar circumstances, it is scarcely extraordinary that it should have effected the same portion of the brain, and caused a certain similarity in our dreams.

In all nightmares something terrible happens, or is on the point of happening; and so it was here.

Not unnaturally in both our cases our thoughts turned to soldiers.

If you remember, there was a talk at mess some little time since as to what would happen in the extremely unlikely event of the Sepoys mutinying in a body.