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`` Very obviously it was the adventure of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman that the York shilling suggested to you . '' `` I 'll admit that I do recollect Irving 's story now , '' the other confessed . `` So the embroidery on the dream-gown gives the first of your strange situations ; and the three others were suggested by the coins you have been using as buttons , '' said Paul Stuyvesant . `` There is only one thing now that puzzles me : that is the country church and the noon wedding and the beautiful bride . '' And with that he turned over the folds of the silken garment that hung over his arm . Cosmo Waynflete hesitated a moment and a blush mantled his cheek . Then he looked his friend in the face and said : `` I think I can account for my dreaming about her -- I can account for that easily enough . ''