daughter's arm, he passed away. When the family had retired from the death chamber, this daughter said to the physician, 'Doctor, I want to die as Father died.' He answered, 'So doI.' "
Risiart Ddu, the last night he lived, said concerning his father,—"My great wish for him now is that I might be near to help him when the last summons comes; "and a few hours before the father's death, he suddenly asked—" Has Richard come?" " You mean Wynn, don't you? " said his daughter. "No, I mean Richard! " Was this a coincidence!
Risiart Ddu had been dead nine years, but had wished before he died to be of some comfort to his father at the hour of death. Was his father really conscious of his presence? And had he actually come to cheer his father in "the dark valley of the shadow of death?" Who knows! There are credible reports of similar occurrences. The late Dr. William Rees, Liverpool, related how the spirit of a departed friend visited the deathbed of his son David a little before he died. In a letter from Patagonia, in the "Drych," March 10, 1905, the writer said that Mr. Lewis Jones, a little before he died, was sitting in the parlour with his wife and daughter. Seeing the tears flowing down his cheeks, his wife asked him why he wept, when he replied, "The Llyfrbryf is gone!" (Dyna'r Llyfrbryf wedi myn'd!) meaning the death of his literary old friend Mr. Foulkes (Llyfrbryf). And in a month the family read in the papers that Mr. Foulkes actually died near Ruthin, N. Wales, the very time Mr. Lewis Jones was weeping in his house in Patagonia, over five thousand miles away. You may call this spiritual telepathy or anything you like, but there is some-
