“...  We arrived there on Wednesday the 25th August, the house being then tenanted by Mr. J.R.  H——­ of K——­ Court, C——­, G——­shire.  The household consisted of Mr. and Mrs. H——­, three sons, Miss H——­, my sister and I, and two other guests, Colonel A——­ and Major B——.

“We had rooms in the wing on the ground floor of the house, opening off the main hall, divided from the rest of the house by a long passage, and shut off by a swing-door.  Our rooms opened off each other, and the inner room opened off a little sitting-room, which had a door with glass panels leading into the passage.  The only other person who slept in that wing of the house was Mr. Willie H——­, whose room was exactly opposite the door of our room.

“We heard a great deal of discussion about the ‘ghost’ when we arrived, and so that night my sister made me sleep in the inner room with her.  We heard nothing that night.  The next night I slept in the outer room, and neither of us heard anything.  The third night, my sister being still a little nervous, I slept in the inner room with her.  The door of the outer room was locked, the door between the rooms was locked, and there was a wardrobe placed against the door leading into the sitting-room.  We both, having taken these precautions, fell sound asleep.

“I wakened suddenly in the middle of the night, and noticed how quiet the house was.  Then I heard the clock strike two, and a few minutes later there came a crashing, vibrating batter against the door of the outer room.  My sister was sleeping very soundly, but she started up in a moment at the noise, wide awake.

“‘Some one must have done that,’ she said; ’such a noise could never have been made by a ghost!’

“But neither of us had the courage to go out into the passage!  The noise lasted, I should say, for only two or three seconds, and ceased as suddenly as it had begun.  We lay awake till the light came in, but the house was quite quiet.  I may mention, as against the ‘supernatural’ origin of the sound, that it came against the outer door, did not pass in to the inner one, and avoided the glass-panelled door of the sitting-room, which would certainly have been shivered by the application of force sufficient to produce such noise.  Another very curious thing was, that on the nights when it came to our door (we only heard it once, but other visitors heard it often) Willie H——­ heard nothing; whereas on the nights when he was disturbed, we heard nothing, yet the rooms were close together.

“The following night my sister and Miss H——­ and two of her brothers sat up all night in the morning-room, which opened off the main hall.  We sat with the door open and in the dark, but neither heard or saw anything; the house was absolutely still.

“The next night my sister and I stayed in Miss H——­’s room, watching with her.  It was on the third storey of the house, and on a line with the specially haunted room, then occupied by Colonel A——.  Two of the men sat up downstairs.