One of the guests at B——­ during Colonel Taylor’s tenancy wrote after his return to London to Miss Freer as follows:—­

“March 24th.—­I went to call the other day on the ‘G.’s’ who chanced to be still in town....  I begin chronologically, and give you what I was told in all seriousness....  The H——­s knew nothing about any stories of haunting when they took the place, and Miss H——­ and one of the sons went up, most innocently, to prepare for the arrival of the others.  As soon as they entered it the son said to his sister that he couldn’t explain why, but he had a conviction that the house was haunted.  That night, however, nothing happened.  But the second night the bangings began.  An old Spanish nurse was in the haunted room, and was greatly disturbed by the noise upon her door, which seemed as if it were going to be burst open.  She didn’t seem to be alarmed in the least however, and later took steps to secure its remaining shut by stuffing a towel under the chink (why this should secure it I rather fail to see, still that was her view).  Apparently the ghost resented this, and one night did actually burst the door open, with such violence that the towel was precipitated into the middle of the room.  The longer they stayed in the house, the worse things got.  The noises were all over the house more or less, and were by no means confined to bangings.  Miss H——­ slept in room No. 8, where the ghost limped round her bed.  She was so alarmed that she fetched her brother in, and he slept on the sofa.  The limping began again, and she asked him if he heard anything, and he at once agreed that somebody was walking round the bed.  In his own room—­I forget which—­he twice saw the ghost, once in the shape of an indeterminate mist, once in the shape of a man, who came in by the door and vanished in the wall.  Mrs.  ’G.’[B] now appears on the scene, and slept in No. 1 (I think).  She heard only the bangings, which she declares were indescribably loud.  They were mostly at the door of the haunted room.  Traps were laid to catch unwary jesters; the door, or the surrounding floor, I forget which, was covered with flour, and wires were stretched across the door; and if I had the proper mind of a ghost-story narrator, I should say that the bangings were as bad as ever, and the flour and the wires were found undisturbed.

“But as a matter of fact she didn’t say that, though doubtless she intended to, but jumped on to something else.  Mr.  “G.,” who was there some weeks after his wife, was put down in the wing—­I don’t know which room—­and had visitations.  He heard steps approach down the passage, followed by a heavy body flinging itself against his door.  He also heard screams, which seemed to him to recede as though the screamer was passing through the walls. (I couldn’t quite understand this effect, but that was how he described it.) Their chaplain, who was put into the haunted room, was also greatly worried, and both he and the