INTRODUCTION   BY   THE 
EDITOR. 
 
 
Yokohama, April, 1901. 
 
It has often been pointed out how strange are the 
prophecies made from time to time by writers of 
what purports to be merely fiction. 
Of all the remarkable tales with which Mr. R. 
Kipling has delighted the world, none is more 
striking than that of McIntosh Jellaludin and his 
mysterious manuscript.  And now, only a few 
years after reading that incredible tale, I myself, 
at Yokohama, come across a series of circum-
stances wonderfully analogous.  But I will truth-
fully set down this history just as it all happened. 
I went one memorable Wednesday night to 
No. 29.*  For my advent in this most reputable 
 
* Disinclination to marry is congenital in the elect :  the 
Pauline alternative is discountenanced by my doctor. 
 
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