I screamed out, and vainly endeavoured to rouse Sir Tristram.

"Tell me," I said, "Lord Tyrone, why and wherefore are you here at this time of the night ?" "Have you then forgotten our promise to each other, pledged in early life?
I died on Tuesday, at four o'clock.

I have been permitted thus to appear in order to assure you that the revealed religion is the true and only one by which we can be saved.

I am also suffered to inform you that you are with child, and will produce a son, who will marry my heiress; that Sir Tristram will not live long, when you will marry again, and you will die from the effects of childbirth in your forty- seventh year." I begged from him some convincing sign or proof so that when the morning came I might rely upon it, and feel satisfied that his appearance had been real, and that it was not the phantom of my imagination.

He caused the hangings of the bed to be drawn in an unusual way and impossible manner through an iron hook.