The Hon. E——­ F——­ wrote to Miss Freer on March 4th:—­

“... [Major] B——­ is now in London, and I have seen him twice.  He says (1) the hot-water pipe theory is not his own, but was suggested by an engineer friend.  He should not himself have thought that hot-water pipes could make so big a noise.  Besides, Colonel A——­ described the noise as a banging either against the door itself, or against the door of the wardrobe inside the room.... (2) He, B——­, heard the noise himself several times and bolted out into the passage at once, but saw nothing.  The noise sounded like a very loud banging at A——­’s door.... (3) He confirms the story about A——­ being unable to sleep, and says he used to go to sleep on the moor in consequence.”

During Colonel Taylor’s tenancy similar noises were heard, both when the water was totally cut off and when, from some defect in the apparatus, it never reached a high temperature.

The Colonel A——­ referred to, corroborates this account, as follows, in a letter to Major B——­: 

“MY DEAR B——­, You write asking me about B——­ House and its spook.  Well, I never saw anything, and what I heard was what you heard, a terrific banging at one’s bedroom door, generally about from 2 to 3 A.M., about two nights out of three.  Of course there were other yarns of things heard, &c., but I personally never heard or experienced anything else than this banging at the door, which I never could account for....”

Before passing from the subject of Colonel A——­, it is as well to mention that after leaving B——­ he went to stay at another country house, and the butler there spoke to him of the haunting of B——­, where he himself was a servant some years before.  This butler was asked for further information, but sent only the following reply:—­

“Your note to hand regarding B——.  I am afraid what I saw or heard would be of little value to your book, therefore I would rather say nothing.”

It will be observed that, so far from denying the facts, he admits that he saw and heard certain things, which he refuses to describe; but as this evidence is circumstantial rather than direct, it is inserted here rather than in the place to which, chronologically, it would, if fuller, properly have belonged.

Mr. and Mrs.  “G.” were also guests at B——­ during the occupation of the H——­s.  Mrs.  “G.” published an account of her experiences in a magazine article, of course with fictitious names; but she affirms that she has in no sense “written up” the story, which, indeed, is entirely corroborated by other evidence:—­