Miss Moore woke up, and we heard it going on till nearly eight o’clock.  I drew up the blinds and opened the window wide.  I sought all over the room, looking into cupboards and under furniture.  We cannot guess at any possible explanation.

Further experience of these curious hallucinatory sounds, combined with visual hallucination in the same room, taking also into consideration the interest which our own dogs always displayed in these phenomena, led us to the conclusion that our first deductions had been wrong, and that the sounds were those of a dog gambolling.

(The Rev.) Mr.  “Q.” (an English vicar), arrived.  In the evening, at 6.30, Miss Langton and I took him down to the glen.  It was a very light evening.  I saw the figure of Ishbel, not very distinctly, in conversation with the second figure, which was barely defined.  We remained in perfect silence as usual.  On regaining the avenue Miss L——­ said she had heard voices, and thought she had seen what might be the white parts of the nun’s dress.  Mr.  “Q.” said he had seen a light under the big tree.  The figures were nearer the tree than usual.  Miss Langton went up a second time with the Colonel, and again heard voices.

It is worth remarking that Mr.  “Q.” has, doubtless from some idiosyncrasy, since developed a faculty of seeing lights where other people see phantasms.

February 19th, Friday.—­No phenomena last night.  We have spent the day in A——­, the neighbouring town, where I had a fall and hurt my foot, so that I was obliged to drive home, and could not go to the glen.  Miss Langton and Mr.  “Q.” went down about seven o’clock.  Mr.  “Q.” saw the outline of a figure of which he has written the description.  Miss Langton heard the usual voices on the other side of the burn; they seemed to her to be interrupted by a third voice, in deeper tones; and she also heard the footsteps of a man passing behind her, a heavy tread, “not like a gentleman.”

The following, the account referred to, was contained in a private letter from Mr.  “Q.” to Lord Bute.  The description of Ishbel in the Journal of February 26th, was, it will be observed, of later date, although before Miss Freer had seen the following:—­

“February 19th and 20th, 1897.—­I had heard only that Miss Freer had seen two figures by the burn, one of which was that of a nun, the other a woman, before whom, on one occasion, the nun appeared to be kneeling.  I had always pictured the nun as standing or kneeling with her back to the spectator.

“On February 19th, at about 6.45 P.M., I visited the burn with Miss Langton (and not Miss Freer).  After looking a little I saw (a); the white was very plain, and the head clearly outlined, but the vision was for the fraction of a second.  I was conscious of it indistinctly for a few minutes, and there seemed a good deal of movement.  Suddenly I was again conscious of the figure as shown in (b), full-face, as though gazing at me; again the white part was very distinct, but I could distinguish no features.”