THE ANGELS OF MONS
Indeed, I cannot help concluding that, even if we allow "everybody" the most generous latitude of meaning, Miss Campbell was mistaken in saying that "everybody" had seen the visions. This, at all events, is clear.
Then; the very day after the issue of "The Bowmen" there was a great surprise. A representative of The Daily Mail found in a hospital a lance-corporal who testified that he himself had seen a vision in the sky during the retreat from Mons. The appearance was as of three figures, in shining robes. The figure in the centre was the largest, and had, as it were, stretched out wings. The lance-corporal was examined a week or two later by Mr. Harold Begbie, and was able to particularise the duration of the vision. It lasted for thirty-five minutes. It has been ingeniously suggested by a correspondent of Light that the
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