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48fell on the floor. The strange thing was that though all these missiles flew near me noneof them actually struck me. After a few moments there was a silence again, during whichI took the opportunity to see if I could find any wires or anything to account for thisstrange manifestation, but could find nothing.I had to go thence to the Bank to deposit money and told my experiences to the Manager(Touch), who laughed and asked me what I had had for tiffin. However on his way homehe looked in to investigate and on entering the room was greeted by a heavy glassinkstand which whizzed past his head and caused him to beat a hasty retreat. This createdquite a sensation in Rangoon at the time.The owner of the building called in Hpoongees (priests) to exorcise the "devil" butapparently without avail, for another family who rented the apartment some time laterhad to clear out for the same reason. Anyhow it seemed to me such a remarkableoccurrence that I wrote an account of it which I sent to the “World Wide Magazine” atthe height of its popularity. It was returned with a polite note saying they could not printit as it would not be believed. At the same it may be noted, they were publishing the"Adventures of Louis de Rougement", who subsequently turned out to be an impostorand a fake 7 .Garnet, who had been ailing for some time, went for a trip to England. At about the sametime Graham became very ill with fever. It was a very unhealthy season and there weremany deaths from enteric among the European community. Both Bea and I had bouts offever and we decided to take a trip home the following year. We sailed about May. Wehad a lot of very nice passengers and enjoyed the sea-voyage as usual. At Ismailia,Auntie and General Harris, who had been wintering in Cairo, came on board andtravelled the rest of the way with us to London.My mother and Mary met us at Tilbury Docks. I think they were living in lodgings inLondon at that time. Denison, who had obtained a commission in the Perak Sikhs, andWilfred, who had joined the Borneo Company in Bangkok, had gone abroad and Aggiewas living with Cornelia Quarles in Holland.We spent some time in London with Auntie Harris and Aunt Torie and then went on toWalton-on-Thames where the Man family were living and my Mother and Mary tooklodgings in the vicinity, so we saw them nearly every day. I saw the "Derby" run for thefirst and only time. I drove over to Epsom with Mr. Man. It was won by a horse called"Jeddah" at odds of 100 to 1. I also attended the Burma dinner and met many old Burmafriends. Lord Dufferin was the Chairman on this occasion.After a stay at Walton, we took a house at a pretty little place called "Ditching" at the footof the Sussex Downs. My Mother and Mary shared the house with us and we had asguests May and Katie Man. Flo McMaster, a cousin of Bea's, was living there at the timewith her daughter Queenie. While there we made a trip to Brighton, where Graham wasvery happy riding in a goat carriage.