Mr. H——­’s rejoinder, which appeared in The Times, was dated June 10th:—­

To the Editor of “The Times"

“SIR,—­I must ask you to be good enough to publish, on behalf of the tenant of B——­, a few remarks on the article that appeared in your paper of the 8th inst. with the heading ‘On the Trail of a Ghost.’  The writer of that article finds a very easy solution to the mystery by attacking a private family who happened to be tenants of B——­ for a short time, and making them a ‘scapegoat’ for his argument.  I do not quite understand if your correspondent pretends to assert that the place had not the reputation of being haunted previous to my tenancy for three months last year; probably he does not charge me with originating such reports, as he mentions a story of the visit of a Catholic Archbishop to the house to exorcise the ghost.  This must have happened some time ago, and proves that the house was then supposed to be haunted.  What your correspondent does state as a fact is, that the younger members of my family played practical jokes, which have given rise to Lord Bute’s investigations.  My object in writing to you is to deny most emphatically this statement.  The principal proof that is brought forward to corroborate this slander is, that the doors are marked by the blows struck to produce the noises heard.  Surely no one could be frightened after the cause and reason of the noises were once ascertained by the boot-marks!  But there were no such marks on the doors when we left B——.  Some of our guests were with us until very shortly before my family left, and can testify to this, for the good reason that in the endeavour to localise the extraordinary noises, all doors and other parts of the house were constantly examined up to the very last.  When I went to B——­ at the beginning of August, my family had already been there a few days, and at once they told me they had found out the house was supposed to be haunted, and that they had heard most unaccountable noises.  I had the greatest difficulty to persuade all my people to stay in the place, and after all, we left Scotland about the end of September, two months earlier than usual.  I personally did not give any importance to the rumours that B——­ House is haunted, and attributed the very remarkable noises heard to the hot-water pipes and the peculiar way in which the house is built.  In fact, I have to confess I cannot believe in ghosts, and, consequently, I did my best to persuade everybody that B——­ was not haunted, but I am afraid I was not always successful.  I hope you will forgive me for taking up so much valuable space in your paper, but I had to do so in self-defence against a false accusation.—­Yours faithfully, H——.”

It is believed that, in consequence of this letter, Mr. H——­ was threatened with legal proceedings, which, however, have not yet been initiated.

The following is the account given of the same period by Miss “B.,” a lady of some position in the literary world:—­