1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:05,919 Speaker 1: The Phantom Coach by Amelia B. Edwards. The circumstances I 2 00:00:05,960 --> 00:00:08,839 am about to relate to you have truth to recommend them. 3 00:00:09,759 --> 00:00:12,839 They happened to myself, and my recollection of them is 4 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:16,920 vivid as if they had taken place only yesterday, twenty 5 00:00:17,039 --> 00:00:21,079 years ago. However, have gone by since that night. During 6 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:23,440 those twenty years I have told the story to but 7 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:27,199 one other person. I tell it now with a reluctance 8 00:00:27,199 --> 00:00:31,800 which I find it difficult to overcome. All I entreat meanwhile, 9 00:00:32,359 --> 00:00:35,280 is that you will abstain from forcing your own conclusions 10 00:00:35,359 --> 00:00:40,799 upon me. I want nothing explained away. I desire no arguments. 11 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:44,039 My mind on this subject is quite made up, and 12 00:00:44,119 --> 00:00:46,960 having the testimony of my own senses to rely upon, 13 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:50,600 I prefer to abide by it. Well, it was just 14 00:00:50,679 --> 00:00:53,479 twenty years ago, and within a day or two of 15 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:56,240 the end of the grouse season I had been out 16 00:00:56,280 --> 00:00:58,920 all day with my gun and had had no sport 17 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:04,079 to speak of. The wind was due east the month December. 18 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:07,959 The place a bleak wide more in the far north 19 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:11,439 of England, and I had lost my way. It was 20 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:13,680 not a pleasant place in which to lose one's way. 21 00:01:13,959 --> 00:01:16,959 With the first feathery flakes of a coming snowstorm, just 22 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:20,680 fluttering down upon the heather, and the leaden evening closing 23 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:24,519 in all around. I shaded my eyes with my hand 24 00:01:25,079 --> 00:01:28,959 and stared anxiously into the gathering darkness, where the purple 25 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:32,760 moorland melted into a range of low hills, some ten 26 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:37,480 or twelve miles distant. Not the faintest smoke wreath, not 27 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:42,319 the tiniest cultivated patch or fence or sheep track, met 28 00:01:42,359 --> 00:01:45,959 my eyes in any direction. There was nothing for it 29 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:48,640 but to move on and take my chance of finding 30 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:52,439 what shelter I could by the way. So I shouldered 31 00:01:52,439 --> 00:01:55,879 my gun again and pushed warily forward, for I had 32 00:01:55,879 --> 00:01:58,560 been on foot since an hour after daybreak, and had 33 00:01:58,599 --> 00:02:03,599 eaten nothing since breakfast. Meanwhile, the snow began to come 34 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:08,039 down with ominous steadiness, and the wind fell. After this, 35 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:11,479 the cold became more intense, and the night came rapidly up. 36 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:15,639 As for me, my prospects darkened with the darkening sky, 37 00:02:15,879 --> 00:02:17,840 and my heart grew heavy as I thought how my 38 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:20,759 young wife was already watching for me through the window 39 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:23,439 of our little inn parlor, and thought of all the 40 00:02:23,479 --> 00:02:27,520 suffering in store for her throughout this weary night. We 41 00:02:27,599 --> 00:02:31,240 had been married four months, and, having spent out autumn 42 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:33,840 in the Highlands, were now lodging in a remote little 43 00:02:33,919 --> 00:02:37,840 village situated just on the verge of the great English Moorlands. 44 00:02:38,319 --> 00:02:41,159 We were very much in love, and of course very happy. 45 00:02:42,159 --> 00:02:44,599 This morning when we parted. She had implored me to 46 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:47,479 return before dusk, and I had promised her that I would. 47 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:50,879 What would I not have given to have kept my word? 48 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:54,879 Even now, weary as I was, I felt that with 49 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:57,840 a supper, an hour's rest, and a guide I might 50 00:02:57,879 --> 00:03:00,879 still get back to her before midnight, if only guide 51 00:03:00,919 --> 00:03:04,840 in shelter could be found. And all this time the 52 00:03:04,879 --> 00:03:08,759 snow fell and the night thickened. I stopped and shouted 53 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:11,439 every now and then, but my shouts seemed only to 54 00:03:11,479 --> 00:03:16,039 make the silence deeper. Then a vague sense of uneasiness 55 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:19,120 came upon me, and I began to remember stories of 56 00:03:19,199 --> 00:03:22,080 travelers who had walked on and on in the falling 57 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:26,280 snow until wearied out they were fain to lie down 58 00:03:26,319 --> 00:03:30,280 and sleep their lives away. Would it be possible, i 59 00:03:30,319 --> 00:03:33,159 asked myself, to keep on thus through all the long 60 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:36,879 dark night. Would there not come a time when my 61 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:40,919 limbs must fail? And my resolution give way, when I 62 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:46,240 too must sleep the sleep of death, death, I shuddered. 63 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:49,639 How hard to die just now, when life lay also 64 00:03:49,759 --> 00:03:53,719 bright before me? How hard for my darling, whose whole 65 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:57,039 loving heart but that thought was not to be borne 66 00:03:57,479 --> 00:04:00,639 to banish it? I shouted again, and again the echo followed. 67 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:04,120 Then a wavering speck of light came suddenly out of 68 00:04:04,159 --> 00:04:09,680 the dark, shifting, disappearing, growing momentarily nearer and brighter. Running 69 00:04:09,719 --> 00:04:12,039 towards it at full speed, I found myself, to my 70 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:14,919 great joy, face to face with an old man and 71 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:19,639 a lantern. Thank God, was the exclamation that burst involuntarily 72 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:23,600 from my lips. Blinking and frowning, he lifted his lantern 73 00:04:23,639 --> 00:04:27,519 and peered into my face. What for, growled he sulkily, 74 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:30,720 Well for you, I began to fear I should be 75 00:04:30,759 --> 00:04:34,399 lost in the snow. Eh, Then folks do get cast 76 00:04:34,399 --> 00:04:37,120 away hereabouts for a time to time. And what's to 77 00:04:37,319 --> 00:04:40,160 hinder you from being cast away? Likewise? If the Lord 78 00:04:40,319 --> 00:04:43,600 so minded, if the Lord is so minded, that you 79 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:46,920 and I shall be lost together, my friend, we must submit, 80 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:50,800 I replied. But I don't mean to be lost without you. 81 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:55,240 How far am I now from dwelding a good twenty 82 00:04:55,279 --> 00:04:59,920 mile more or less in the nearest village. The nearest 83 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:03,319 village is white, and that's twelve miles to other side. 84 00:05:04,279 --> 00:05:07,560 Where do you live then, out yonder, said he, with 85 00:05:07,639 --> 00:05:10,800 a vague jerk of the lantern. You're going home, I 86 00:05:10,839 --> 00:05:16,160 presume maybe I am. Then I'm going with you. The 87 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:19,360 old man shook his head and rubbed his nose reflectively 88 00:05:19,439 --> 00:05:22,319 with the handle of the lantern. It ain't no use, 89 00:05:22,399 --> 00:05:26,839 growled he. He'n't let you in, not he. We'll see 90 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:30,600 about that, I replied briskly. Who is he the master? 91 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:35,040 Who is the master? That's not to you? Was the 92 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:39,639 unceremonious reply. Well, well, you lead the way, and I'll 93 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:42,199 engage that the Master shall give me shelter and a 94 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:46,680 supper to night. Eh, you can try him, muttered my 95 00:05:46,759 --> 00:05:50,720 reluctant guide, and still shaking his head, he hobbled gnome 96 00:05:50,959 --> 00:05:55,040 like away through the falling snow. A large mass loomed 97 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:57,600 up presently out of the darkness, and a huge dog 98 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:03,199 rushed out, barking furiously. Is this the house? I asked, Ay, 99 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:06,720 it's the house down bay, and he fumbled in his 100 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:10,600 pocket for the key. I drew up close behind him, 101 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:14,000 prepared to lose no chance of entrance, and saw in 102 00:06:14,079 --> 00:06:16,879 the little circle of light shed by the lantern that 103 00:06:16,959 --> 00:06:19,920 the door was heavily studded with iron nails, like the 104 00:06:19,959 --> 00:06:23,199 door of a prison. In another minute he had turned 105 00:06:23,199 --> 00:06:25,639 the key, and I had pushed past him into the house. 106 00:06:26,639 --> 00:06:31,000 Once inside, I looked around with curiosity, and found myself 107 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:34,839 in a great raftered hall which served apparently a variety 108 00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:38,319 of uses. One end was piled to the roof with 109 00:06:38,439 --> 00:06:42,720 corn like a barn. The other was stored with four sacks, 110 00:06:43,199 --> 00:06:48,319 agricultural implements, casks, and all kinds of miscellaneous lumber, while 111 00:06:48,319 --> 00:06:51,639 from the beams overhead hung rows of hams, flitches, and 112 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:55,600 bunches of dried herbs for winter use. In the center 113 00:06:55,639 --> 00:06:59,720 of the floor stood some huge object, gauntly dressed in 114 00:06:59,759 --> 00:07:04,560 a dingy wrapping doth, and reaching half way to the rafters. 115 00:07:05,199 --> 00:07:07,519 Lifting a corner of this cloth, I saw, to my 116 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:12,120 surprise a telescope of very considerable size, mounted on a 117 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:17,240 rude movable platform with four small wheels. The tube was 118 00:07:17,279 --> 00:07:20,519 made of painted wood, bound round with bands of metal, 119 00:07:20,639 --> 00:07:24,600 rudely fashioned thus speculum so far as I could estimate 120 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:28,079 its size in the dim light, measured at least fifteen 121 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:32,519 inches in diameter. While I was yet examining the instrument 122 00:07:32,639 --> 00:07:35,000 and asking myself whether it was not the work of 123 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:40,199 some self taught optician, a bell rang sharply. That's for you, 124 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:45,959 said my guide with a malicious grin yonders his room. 125 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:48,720 He pointed to a low black door at the opposite 126 00:07:48,759 --> 00:07:53,240 side of the hall. I crossed over, wrapped somewhat loudly, 127 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:57,519 and went in without waiting for an invitation. A huge, 128 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:00,920 white haired old man rose from a table covered with 129 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:05,199 books and papers and confronted me sternly. Who are you? 130 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:09,160 Said he? How came you here? What do you want? 131 00:08:10,399 --> 00:08:14,480 James Murray, barrister at law on foot across the moor, 132 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:20,040 meet drink and sleep. He bent his bushy brows into 133 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:24,319 a portentous frown. Mine is not a house of entertainment, 134 00:08:24,399 --> 00:08:28,240 he said, haughtily, Jacob, how dare you admit this stranger? 135 00:08:29,399 --> 00:08:32,559 I didn't admit him, grumbled the old man. He followed 136 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:35,639 me over the mirror and shouldered his way in before me. 137 00:08:36,399 --> 00:08:41,320 I'm no match for six foot two, and pray, sir, by, 138 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:43,879 what right have you forced an entrance into my house, 139 00:08:44,759 --> 00:08:46,679 the same by which I should have clung to your 140 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:50,279 boat if I were drowning the right of self preservation, 141 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:55,320 self preservation. There's an inch of snow on the ground already, 142 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:58,000 i replied briefly, and it would be deep enough to 143 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:01,919 cover my body before daybreak. He strode to the window, 144 00:09:02,159 --> 00:09:05,600 pulled aside a heavy black curtain, and looked out. It 145 00:09:05,759 --> 00:09:09,240 is true, he said, you can stay, if you choose, 146 00:09:09,279 --> 00:09:13,840 till morning. Jacob served the supper with this, He waved 147 00:09:13,879 --> 00:09:16,960 me to a seat, resumed his own, and became at 148 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:20,039 once absorbed in the studies from which I had disturbed him. 149 00:09:20,879 --> 00:09:23,759 I placed my gun in a corner, drew a chair 150 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:27,879 to the hearth, and examined my quarters at leisure. Smaller 151 00:09:27,919 --> 00:09:31,279 and less incongruous in its arrangements than the hall, this 152 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:37,039 room contained, nevertheless much to awaken my curiosity. The floor 153 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:42,039 was carpetless, The whitewashed walls were in parts scrawled over 154 00:09:42,159 --> 00:09:46,200 with strange diagrams, and in others covered with shelves crowded 155 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:49,639 with philosophical instruments, the uses of many of which were 156 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:53,440 unknown to me. On one side of the fireplace stood 157 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:57,440 a bookcase filled with dingy folios, on the other a 158 00:09:57,480 --> 00:10:02,600 small organ fantastically decor with painted carvings of medieval saints 159 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:06,480 and devils. Through the half open door of a cupboard 160 00:10:06,519 --> 00:10:08,919 at the furtherer end of the room, I saw a 161 00:10:09,039 --> 00:10:16,080 long array of geological specimens, surgical preparations, crucibles, retorts, and 162 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:19,720 jars of chemicals. While on the mantel shelf beside me, 163 00:10:20,279 --> 00:10:23,519 amid a number of small objects, stood a model of 164 00:10:23,559 --> 00:10:29,360 the solar system, a small galvanic battery, and a microscope. 165 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:34,039 Every chair had its burden, Every corner was heaped high 166 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:40,000 with books. The very floor was littered over with maps, casts, papers, tracings, 167 00:10:40,039 --> 00:10:44,960 and learned lumber of all conceivable kinds. I steered about 168 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:48,399 me with an amazement, increased by every fresh object upon 169 00:10:48,440 --> 00:10:51,960 which my eyes chanced to rest. So strange a room 170 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:55,519 I had never seen, yet seemed it stranger still to 171 00:10:55,639 --> 00:10:58,559 find such a room, and a lone farmhouse amid those 172 00:10:58,679 --> 00:11:03,559 wild and solitary mores. Over and over again, I looked 173 00:11:03,559 --> 00:11:06,960 from my host to his surroundings, and from his surroundings 174 00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:10,799 back to my hosts, asking myself who and what he 175 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:14,879 could be. His head was singularly fine, but it was 176 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:17,600 more the head of a poet than of a philosopher. 177 00:11:18,519 --> 00:11:22,480 Brought in the temples, prominent over the eyes, and clothed 178 00:11:22,639 --> 00:11:26,320 with a rough profusion of perfectly white hair. It had 179 00:11:26,399 --> 00:11:30,039 all the ideality and much of the ruggedness that characterizes 180 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:34,279 the head of Louis von Beethoven. There were the same 181 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:37,799 deep lines about the mouth, and the same stern furrows 182 00:11:37,799 --> 00:11:41,879 in the brow. There was the same concentration of expression. 183 00:11:42,519 --> 00:11:45,559 While I was yet observing him, the door opened, and 184 00:11:45,679 --> 00:11:50,639 Jacob brought in the supper. His master then closed his book, rose, 185 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:53,399 and with more courtesy of manner than he had yet shown, 186 00:11:53,679 --> 00:11:57,360 invited me to the table. A dish of ham and eggs, 187 00:11:57,559 --> 00:12:00,600 a loaf of brown bread, and a bottle of admirable 188 00:12:00,639 --> 00:12:04,639 sherry were placed before me. I have but the homeliest 189 00:12:04,679 --> 00:12:09,279 farmhouse fair to offer you, sir, said my entertainer. Your appetite, 190 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:12,320 I trust, will make up for the deficiencies of our larder. 191 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:16,519 I had already fallen upon the viands, and now protested, 192 00:12:17,159 --> 00:12:20,559 with the enthusiasm of a starving sportsman, that I had 193 00:12:20,639 --> 00:12:25,320 never eaten anything so delicious. He bowed stiffly and sat 194 00:12:25,399 --> 00:12:29,399 down to his own supper, which consisted primitively of a 195 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:33,120 jug of milk and a basin of porridge. We ate 196 00:12:33,159 --> 00:12:36,720 in silence, and when we had done, Jacob removed the tray. 197 00:12:37,759 --> 00:12:41,519 I then drew my chair back to the fireside. My host, 198 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:45,240 somewhat to my surprise, did the same, and, turning abruptly 199 00:12:45,279 --> 00:12:49,559 towards me, said, Sir, I have lived here in strict 200 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:53,799 retirement for three and twenty years. During that time I 201 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:56,720 have not seen as many strange faces, and I have 202 00:12:56,840 --> 00:13:01,120 not read a single newspaper. You the first stranger who 203 00:13:01,159 --> 00:13:04,879 has crossed my threshold for more than four years. Will 204 00:13:04,919 --> 00:13:08,159 you favor me with a few words of information respecting 205 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:10,840 that outer world from which I have parted company? So 206 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:16,159 long pray interrogate me, I replied, I am heartily at 207 00:13:16,159 --> 00:13:21,759 your service. He bent his head in acknowledgment, leaned forward, 208 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:25,399 with his elbows resting on his knees and his chin 209 00:13:25,519 --> 00:13:29,240 supported in the palms of his hands, stared fixedly into 210 00:13:29,279 --> 00:13:34,480 the fire, and proceeded to question me. His inquiries related 211 00:13:34,559 --> 00:13:38,480 chiefly to scientific matters, with the later progress of which, 212 00:13:38,799 --> 00:13:42,000 as applied to the practical purposes of life. He was 213 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:47,759 almost wholly unacquainted. No student of science myself, I replied, 214 00:13:47,799 --> 00:13:51,519 as well as my slight information permitted. But the task 215 00:13:51,639 --> 00:13:54,600 was far from easy, and I was much relieved when 216 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:59,120 passing from interrogation to discussion, he began pouring forth his 217 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:01,960 own conclusions upon the facts which I had been attempting 218 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:06,480 to place before him. He talked, and I listened, spellbound. 219 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:10,080 He talked till I believe he almost forgot my presence 220 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:14,360 and only thought aloud, I had never heard anything like it. 221 00:14:14,440 --> 00:14:19,320 Then I have never heard anything like it since. Familiar 222 00:14:19,559 --> 00:14:24,039 with all systems of all philosophies, subtle in analysis, bold 223 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:29,759 in generalization, he poured forth his thoughts in an uninterrupted stream, and, 224 00:14:29,840 --> 00:14:33,039 still leaning forward in the same moody attitude, with his 225 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:36,879 eyes fixed upon the fire, wandered from topic to topic, 226 00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:42,840 from speculation to speculation, like an inspired dreamer, from practical 227 00:14:42,879 --> 00:14:46,759 science to mental philosophy, from electricity in the wire to 228 00:14:46,919 --> 00:14:51,399 electricity in the nerve, from watts to Mesmer, from Mesmer 229 00:14:51,399 --> 00:14:59,759 to Reichenbach, from Reichenbach to Swedenborg, Spinosa, Condilact, Descartes, Berkeley, Aristotle, Plato, 230 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:03,360 and the magi and mystics of the East were transitions which, 231 00:15:03,799 --> 00:15:07,759 however bewildering in their variety, and scope seemed easy and 232 00:15:07,799 --> 00:15:11,840 harmonious upon his lips, as sequences in music. By and 233 00:15:11,919 --> 00:15:15,639 by I forget now by what length of conjecture or 234 00:15:15,639 --> 00:15:19,600 illustration he passed on to that field which lies beyond 235 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:23,799 the boundary line or even conjectural philosophy, and reaches no 236 00:15:23,879 --> 00:15:28,200 man knows whither. He spoke of the soul and its aspirations, 237 00:15:28,639 --> 00:15:33,000 of the spirit, and its powers of second sight, of prophecy, 238 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:37,200 of those phenomena which, under the names of ghosts, specters, 239 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:41,200 and supernatural appearances, have been denied by the skeptics and 240 00:15:41,279 --> 00:15:46,360 attested by the credulous of all ages. The world, he said, 241 00:15:46,799 --> 00:15:50,360 grows hourly more and more skeptical of all that lies 242 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:54,159 beyond its own narrow radius. And our men of science 243 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:58,639 foster the fatal tendency. They condemn as fable, all that 244 00:15:58,759 --> 00:16:03,399 resists experiment, they reject as false, all that cannot be 245 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:07,440 brought to the test of the laboratory or the dissecting room. 246 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:11,559 Against what superstition have they waged so long and obstinate 247 00:16:11,639 --> 00:16:16,080 a war as against the belief and apparitions? And yet 248 00:16:16,639 --> 00:16:19,639 what superstition has maintained its hold upon the minds of 249 00:16:19,679 --> 00:16:23,279 men so long and so firmly show me any fact 250 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:26,879 in physics, in history, and archaeology which is supported by 251 00:16:26,919 --> 00:16:31,440 testimonies so wide and so various, attested by all races 252 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:35,159 of men, in all ages and in all climates, by 253 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:39,440 the soberist sages of antiquity, by the rudest savage of today, 254 00:16:39,879 --> 00:16:44,759 by the Christian, the pagan, the pantheist, the materialist. This 255 00:16:44,799 --> 00:16:48,399 phenomenon is treated as a nursery tale by the philosophers 256 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:52,519 of our century. Circumstantial evidence weighs with them as a 257 00:16:52,519 --> 00:16:57,000 feather in the balance. The comparison of causes with effects, 258 00:16:57,320 --> 00:17:01,320 however valuable in physical science, is put aside as worthless 259 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:06,960 and unreliable. The evidence of competent witnesses, however conclusive in 260 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:11,559 a court of justice, counts for nothing. He who pauses 261 00:17:11,599 --> 00:17:16,359 before he pronounces is condemned as a trifler. He who 262 00:17:16,359 --> 00:17:20,640 believes is a dreamer or a fool. He spoke with bitterness, 263 00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:24,559 and having said thus, relapsed for some minutes into silence. 264 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:28,599 Presently he raised his head from his hands and added, 265 00:17:28,759 --> 00:17:34,880 with an altered voice and manner, I sir, paused, investigated, believed, 266 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:38,079 and was not ashamed to state my convictions to the world, 267 00:17:39,359 --> 00:17:42,359 I too, was branded as a visionary, held up to 268 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:46,160 ridicule by my contemporaries, and hooted from that field of 269 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:49,000 science in which I had labored with honor during all 270 00:17:49,039 --> 00:17:53,160 the best years of my life. These things happened just 271 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:57,000 three and twenty years ago. Since then, I have lived 272 00:17:57,039 --> 00:17:59,559 as you see me living now, and the world has 273 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:03,279 forgot me as I have forgotten the world. You have 274 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:07,200 my history. It is a very sad one, I murmured, 275 00:18:07,319 --> 00:18:11,160 scarcely knowing what to answer. It is a very common one, 276 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:14,640 he replied. I have only suffered for the truth, as 277 00:18:14,759 --> 00:18:17,519 many a better and wiser man has suffered before me. 278 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:22,119 He rose, as if desirous of ending the conversation, and 279 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:26,400 went over to the window. It has ceased snowing, he observed, 280 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:30,839 as he dropped the curtain and came back to the fireside. Ceased, 281 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:34,960 I exclaimed, starting eagerly to my feet. Oh, if it 282 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:39,440 were only possible. But no, it is hopeless. Even if 283 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:41,920 I could find my way across the moor, I could 284 00:18:41,920 --> 00:18:46,920 not walk twenty miles tonight, Walk twenty miles tonight, repeated 285 00:18:46,920 --> 00:18:50,440 my host. What are you thinking of of my wife? 286 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:54,559 I replied, impatiently, of my young wife, who does not 287 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:56,960 know that I have lost my way, and who is 288 00:18:57,039 --> 00:19:00,400 at this moment breaking her heart with suspense and terror. 289 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:07,440 Where is she at Dwolding twenty miles away? At Dwelding, 290 00:19:07,519 --> 00:19:11,680 he echoed thoughtfully. Yes, the distance, it is true, is 291 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:15,759 twenty miles. But are you so very anxious to save 292 00:19:15,839 --> 00:19:20,559 the next six or eight hours, so very very anxious 293 00:19:20,839 --> 00:19:22,880 that I would give ten guineas at this moment for 294 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:26,839 a guide and a horse. Your wish can be gratified 295 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:30,119 at a less costly rate, said he, smiling. The night 296 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:34,279 mail from the North, which changes horses at Dwelding, passes 297 00:19:34,319 --> 00:19:37,240 within five miles of this spot, and will be due 298 00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:40,119 at a certain crossroad in about an hour and a quarter. 299 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:43,599 If Jacob were to go with you across the moor 300 00:19:44,119 --> 00:19:47,000 and put you into the old coach road, you could 301 00:19:47,039 --> 00:19:49,519 find your way, I suppose to where it joins the 302 00:19:49,559 --> 00:19:55,319 new one, easily. Gladly, he smiled again, rang the bell, 303 00:19:56,039 --> 00:19:58,880 gave the old servant his directions, and, taking a bottle 304 00:19:58,880 --> 00:20:01,359 of whiskey and wine glass from the cupboard in which 305 00:20:01,359 --> 00:20:05,319 he kept his chemicals, said the snow lies deep and 306 00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:07,799 it will be difficult walking to night on the moor. 307 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:13,039 A glass of uskuba before you start. I would have 308 00:20:13,079 --> 00:20:15,400 declined the spirit, but he pressed it on me and 309 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:19,119 I drank it. It went down my throat like liquid flame, 310 00:20:19,319 --> 00:20:23,319 and almost took my breath away. It is strong, he said, 311 00:20:23,519 --> 00:20:26,000 but it will help to keep out the cold. And 312 00:20:26,079 --> 00:20:30,519 now you have no moments to spare good night. I 313 00:20:30,599 --> 00:20:33,920 thanked him for his hospitality, and would have shaken hands, 314 00:20:34,039 --> 00:20:36,119 but that he had turned away before I could finish 315 00:20:36,119 --> 00:20:39,880 my sentence. In another minute, I had traversed the hall, 316 00:20:40,519 --> 00:20:43,160 Jacob had locked the outer door behind me, and we 317 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:48,000 were out on the wide white moor. Although the wind 318 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:51,519 had fallen, it was still bitterly cold. Not a star 319 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:55,759 glimmered in the black vault overhead. Not a sound save 320 00:20:55,839 --> 00:20:59,240 the rapid crunching of the snow beneath our feet, disturbed 321 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:03,480 the heavy stillness of the night. Jacob, not too well 322 00:21:03,519 --> 00:21:07,240 pleased with his mission, shambled on before in sullen silence, 323 00:21:07,759 --> 00:21:10,359 his lantern in his hand and his shadow at his feet. 324 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:14,319 I followed with my gun over my shoulder, as little 325 00:21:14,359 --> 00:21:18,720 inclined for conversation as himself. My thoughts were full of 326 00:21:18,759 --> 00:21:22,160 my late host. His voice yet rang in my ears. 327 00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:27,559 His eloquence yet held my imagination captive. I remember to 328 00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:31,559 this day with surprise, how my over excited brain retained 329 00:21:31,559 --> 00:21:35,720 whole sentences and parts of sentences, troops of brilliant images, 330 00:21:35,759 --> 00:21:39,160 and fragments of splendid reasoning in the very words in 331 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:42,200 which he had uttered them. Musing thus over what I 332 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:45,680 had heard, and striving to recall a lost link here 333 00:21:45,759 --> 00:21:49,240 and there. I strode at the heel of my guide, 334 00:21:49,759 --> 00:21:54,440 absorbed and unobservant, presently at the end, as it seemed 335 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:56,839 to me, of only a few minutes. He came to 336 00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:01,079 a sudden halt and said, yon, gi rou, keep the 337 00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:03,839 stone fence to your right hand, and you can't fail 338 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:07,960 of the way. This, then, is the old coach road. 339 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:12,480 I tis the old coach road. And how far do 340 00:22:12,559 --> 00:22:16,599 I go? Before I reached the crossroads? Nigh upon three mile? 341 00:22:17,799 --> 00:22:20,519 I pulled out my purse, and he became more communicative. 342 00:22:22,079 --> 00:22:25,279 The road's affair road enough, said he for foot passengers, 343 00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:28,440 but twas over steep and narrow for the northern traffic. 344 00:22:29,519 --> 00:22:33,720 You'll mind where the parpet's broken away. Close again the signpost. 345 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:39,480 It's never been mended since the accident. What accident, eh, 346 00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:43,039 the nightmail pitched right over into the valley below, a 347 00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:46,119 good fifty feet and more, just at the worst biddle 348 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:50,640 road in the whole county. Horrible were many lives lost. 349 00:22:51,759 --> 00:22:55,160 All four were found dead, and to other two died 350 00:22:55,279 --> 00:22:59,920 next morning. How long is it since this happened just 351 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:04,599 nine year near the signpost? You say, I will bear 352 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:09,359 it in mine, good night, good night, sit and thank'ee. 353 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:13,559 Jacob pocketed his half crown, made a faint pretense of 354 00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:16,400 touching his hat, and trudged back by the way he 355 00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:20,000 had come. I watched the fight of his lantern till 356 00:23:20,039 --> 00:23:24,640 it quite disappeared, and then turned to pursue my way alone. 357 00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:28,519 This was no longer matter of the slightest difficulty, for 358 00:23:29,079 --> 00:23:32,680 despite the dead darkness overhead, the line of stone fence 359 00:23:32,799 --> 00:23:35,799 showed distinctly enough against the pale gleam of the snow. 360 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:40,480 How silent it seemed, now, with only my footsteps to 361 00:23:40,559 --> 00:23:46,160 listen to, How silent and how solitary. A strange, disagreeable 362 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:50,559 sense of loneliness stole over me. I walked faster, I 363 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:53,920 hummed a fragment of a tune, I cast up enormous 364 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:57,680 sums in my head, and accumulated them at compound interest. 365 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:02,359 I did best, in short, to forget the startling speculations 366 00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:05,119 to which I had but just been listening, and to 367 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:10,119 some extent I succeeded. Meanwhile, the night air seemed to 368 00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:13,519 become colder and colder, and though I walked fast, I 369 00:24:13,559 --> 00:24:17,680 found it impossible to keep myself warm. My feet were 370 00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:21,480 like ice. I lost sensation in my hands and grasped 371 00:24:21,519 --> 00:24:25,720 my gun mechanically. I even breathed with difficulty, as though 372 00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:29,839 instead of traversing a quiet north country highway, I were 373 00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:34,039 scaling the uppermost heights of some gigantic alp. This last 374 00:24:34,079 --> 00:24:37,599 symptom became presently, so distressing that I was forced to 375 00:24:37,599 --> 00:24:40,559 stop for a few minutes and lean against the stone fence. 376 00:24:41,759 --> 00:24:43,839 As I did so, I chanced to look back up 377 00:24:43,839 --> 00:24:47,759 the road, and there, to my infinite relief, I saw 378 00:24:47,799 --> 00:24:50,680 a distant point of light, like the gleam of an 379 00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:54,960 approaching lantern. I at first concluded that Jacob had retraced 380 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:58,319 his steps and followed me. But even as the conjecture 381 00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:02,720 presented itself, a second light flashed into sight, a light 382 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:06,559 evidently parallel with the first and approaching at the same 383 00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:10,680 rate of motion. It needed no second thought to show 384 00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:13,000 me that these must be the carriage lamps of some 385 00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:17,079 private vehicle. Though it seemed strange that any private vehicle 386 00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:21,960 should take a road professedly disused and dangerous. There could 387 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:24,880 be no doubt, however, of the fact, for the lamps 388 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:28,680 grew larger and brighter every moment, and I even fancied 389 00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:31,079 I could already see the dark outline of the carriage 390 00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:35,720 between them. It was coming up very fast and quite noiselessly, 391 00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:38,839 the snow being nearly a foot deep under the wheels, 392 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:43,000 and now the body of the vehicle became distinctly visible 393 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:48,359 behind the lamps. It looked strangely lofty. A sudden suspicion 394 00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:51,400 flashed upon me. Was it possible that I had passed 395 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:54,599 the crossroads in the dark without observing the signpost? And 396 00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:57,039 could this be the very coach which I had come 397 00:25:57,079 --> 00:26:00,559 to meet? No need to ask myself that questioned a 398 00:26:00,599 --> 00:26:02,799 second time, for here it came round the bend of 399 00:26:02,839 --> 00:26:06,720 the road, guard and driver, one outside passenger, and four 400 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:10,559 steaming grays, all wrapped in a soft haze of light, 401 00:26:11,039 --> 00:26:13,640 through which the lamps blazed out like a pair of 402 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:18,759 fiery meteors. I jumped forward, waved my hat and shouted. 403 00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:21,640 The mail came down at full speed and passed me. 404 00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:24,240 For a moment, I feared that I had not been 405 00:26:24,279 --> 00:26:26,839 seen or heard, But it was only for a moment. 406 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:30,839 The coachman pulled up the guard, muffled to the eyes 407 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:34,359 and capes and comforters, and apparently sound asleep in the rumble. 408 00:26:34,759 --> 00:26:38,160 Neither answered my hail, nor made the slightest effort to dismount. 409 00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:42,559 The outside passenger did not even turn his head. I 410 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:45,759 opened the door for myself and looked in. There were 411 00:26:45,759 --> 00:26:49,480 but three travelers inside, so I stepped in, shut the door, 412 00:26:49,839 --> 00:26:53,200 slipped into the vacant corner, and congratulated myself of my 413 00:26:53,279 --> 00:26:58,039 good fortune. The atmosphere of the coach seemed, if possible, 414 00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:01,759 colder than that of the outer air, and was pervaded 415 00:27:01,799 --> 00:27:06,519 by a singularly damp and disagreeable smell. I looked round 416 00:27:06,559 --> 00:27:10,079 at my fellow passengers. They were all three men, and 417 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:13,440 all silent. They did not seem to be asleep, but 418 00:27:13,599 --> 00:27:16,279 each leaned back in his corner of the vehicle, as 419 00:27:16,279 --> 00:27:20,119 if absorbed in his own reflections. I attempted to open 420 00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:24,119 a conversation. How intensely cold it is to night, I said, 421 00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:28,400 addressing my opposite neighbor. He lifted his head, looked at me, 422 00:27:28,559 --> 00:27:32,640 but made no reply. The winter I seems to have 423 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:36,319 begun in earnest. Although the corner in which he sat 424 00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:38,920 was so dim that I could distinguish none of his features. 425 00:27:39,039 --> 00:27:42,240 Very clearly, I saw that his eyes were still turned 426 00:27:42,279 --> 00:27:45,519 full upon me, and yet he answered never a word. 427 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:49,519 At any other time I should have felt and perhaps 428 00:27:49,559 --> 00:27:52,440 expressed some annoyance, but at the moment I felt too 429 00:27:52,519 --> 00:27:56,119 ill to do either. The icy coldness of the night 430 00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:59,200 air had struck a chill to my very marrow, and 431 00:27:59,279 --> 00:28:01,839 the strange smell inside the coach was affecting me with 432 00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:06,519 an intolerable nausea. I shivered from head to foot, and, 433 00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:09,119 turning to my left hand neighbor, asked if he had 434 00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:13,799 any objection to an open window. He neither spoke nor stirred. 435 00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:17,559 I repeated the question somewhat more loudly, but with the 436 00:28:17,599 --> 00:28:20,920 same result. Then I lost my patience and let the 437 00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:24,480 sash down. As I did so, the leather strap broke 438 00:28:24,519 --> 00:28:27,160 in my hand, and I observed that the glass was 439 00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:31,160 covered with a thick coat of mildew. The accumulation apparently 440 00:28:31,319 --> 00:28:35,559 of years. My attention being thus drawn to the condition 441 00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:39,039 of the coach, I examined it more narrowly, and saw, 442 00:28:39,119 --> 00:28:41,799 by the uncertain light of the outer lamps that it 443 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:46,119 was in the last state of dilapidation. Every part of 444 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:48,119 it was not only out of repair, but in a 445 00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:52,519 condition of decay. The sashes splintered at a touch, The 446 00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:56,440 leather fittings were crusted over with mold and literally rotting 447 00:28:56,519 --> 00:29:00,319 from the woodwork. The floor was almost breaking away beneath 448 00:29:00,319 --> 00:29:03,960 my feet. The whole machine, in short, was foul with damp, 449 00:29:04,039 --> 00:29:06,880 and had evidently been dragged from some outhouse in which 450 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:09,400 it had been moldering away for years to do another 451 00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:12,759 day or two of duty on the road. I turned 452 00:29:12,759 --> 00:29:15,680 to the third passenger, whom I had not yet addressed, 453 00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:20,000 and hazarded one more remark. This coach, I said, is 454 00:29:20,039 --> 00:29:24,480 in deplorable condition. The regular mail, I suppose is under repair. 455 00:29:25,759 --> 00:29:28,119 He moved his head slowly and looked me in the 456 00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:31,960 face without speaking a word. I shall never forget that 457 00:29:32,079 --> 00:29:35,640 look while I live. I turned cold at heart under it. 458 00:29:36,119 --> 00:29:39,000 I turned cold at heart even now when I recall it. 459 00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:44,200 His eyes glowed with a fiery, unnatural luster his face 460 00:29:44,319 --> 00:29:47,640 was livid as the face of a corpse. His bloodless 461 00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:50,480 lips were drawn back, as if in the agony of death, 462 00:29:50,559 --> 00:29:54,799 and showed the gleaming teeth between the words that I 463 00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:57,599 was about to utter died upon my lips. In a 464 00:29:57,599 --> 00:30:02,640 strange horror, A dreadful heart came upon me. My sight 465 00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:04,680 had by this time become used to the gloom of 466 00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:09,119 the coach, and I could see with tolerable distinctness. I 467 00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:12,440 turned to my opposite neighbor. He too was looking at me, 468 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:14,880 with the same startling pallor in his face and the 469 00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:18,640 same stony glitter in his eyes. I passed my hand 470 00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:21,920 across my brow. I turned to the passenger on the 471 00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:25,200 seat beside my own, and saw, Oh Heaven, how shall 472 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:28,079 I describe what I saw? I saw that he was 473 00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:30,799 no living man, that none of them were living men 474 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:35,960 like myself. A pale phosphorescent light, the light of putrefaction, 475 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:39,599 played upon their awful faces, upon their hair, dank with 476 00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:43,400 the dews of the grave, upon their clothes, earth stained 477 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:46,880 and dropping to pieces, upon their hands, which were as 478 00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:50,960 the hands of corpses long buried. Only their eyes, their 479 00:30:51,119 --> 00:30:55,119 terrible eyes, were living, and those eyes were all turned 480 00:30:55,160 --> 00:31:00,000 menacingly upon me. A shriek of terror, a wild, unintelligent 481 00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:02,559 will cry for help, and mercy burst from my lips 482 00:31:02,599 --> 00:31:05,359 as I flung myself against the door and strove in 483 00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:09,079 vain to open it. In that single instant, brief and vivid, 484 00:31:09,119 --> 00:31:11,759 as a landscape beheld in the flash of summer lightning, 485 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:14,519 I saw the moon shining down through a rift of 486 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:19,160 stormy cloud, the ghastly signpost rearing its warning finger by 487 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:23,039 the wayside, the broken parapet, the plunging horses, the black 488 00:31:23,079 --> 00:31:26,759 gulf below. Then the coach reeled like a ship at sea. 489 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:30,279 Then came a mighty crash, a sense of crushing pain, 490 00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:35,000 and then darkness. It seemed as if years had gone 491 00:31:35,039 --> 00:31:37,640 by when I awoke one morning from a deep sleep 492 00:31:38,079 --> 00:31:42,000 and found my wife watching by my bedside. I will 493 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,119 pass over the scene that ensued and give you, in 494 00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:46,960 half a dozen words, the tale, she told me, with 495 00:31:47,039 --> 00:31:51,759 tears of thanksgiving. I had fallen over a precipice close 496 00:31:51,799 --> 00:31:54,559 against the junction of the old coach road and the new, 497 00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:57,880 and had only been saved from certain death by lighting 498 00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:00,680 upon a deep snow drift that acum related at the 499 00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:04,519 foot of the rock beneath in this snow drift. I 500 00:32:04,599 --> 00:32:07,599 was discovered at daybreak by a couple of shepherds, who 501 00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:10,319 carried me to the nearest shelter and brought a surgeon 502 00:32:10,359 --> 00:32:13,240 to my aid. The surgeon found me in a state 503 00:32:13,359 --> 00:32:16,359 of raving delirium, with a broken arm and a compound 504 00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:20,000 fracture of the skull. The letters in my pocket book 505 00:32:20,039 --> 00:32:22,880 showed my name and address. My wife was summoned to 506 00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:26,079 nurse me, and thanks to youth and a fine constitution, 507 00:32:26,519 --> 00:32:29,559 I came out of danger at last. The place of 508 00:32:29,599 --> 00:32:33,640 my fall, I need scarcely say, was precisely that at 509 00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:36,440 which a frightful accident had happened to the North Mail 510 00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:41,200 nine years before. I never told my wife the fearful 511 00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:44,759 events which I have just related to you. I told 512 00:32:44,759 --> 00:32:47,799 the surgeon who attended me, but he treated the whole 513 00:32:47,839 --> 00:32:50,319 adventure as a mere dream born of the fever in 514 00:32:50,359 --> 00:32:54,519 my brain. We discussed the question over and over again 515 00:32:54,599 --> 00:32:56,640 until we found that we could discuss it with temper 516 00:32:56,759 --> 00:33:00,839 no longer, and then we dropped it. Others may form 517 00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:04,880 what conclusions they please. I know that twenty years ago 518 00:33:05,559 --> 00:33:09,240 I was the fourth inside passenger in that phantom coach 519 00:33:10,279 --> 00:33:12,480 end of the Phantom Coach.