“...  Miss H——­, who slept, I believe, in the room occupied by you when I left, heard sounds of footsteps going round her room, footsteps with the most unmistakable limp in them.  Shortly after she heard stories connected with the former owner, who used to go by the name of B——­, an aged man [the Major].  She asked if he could be described.  ‘No,’ said her informant; ’the only thing he could remember about him was that he had a most peculiar limp,’ and he forthwith gave an exhibition, which tallied exactly with the limp around the bed.”

In discussing this, Miss Moore and I agreed that, had Miss H——­ slept in No. 8 instead of in No. 1, as Mr. F——­ supposed, we should have considered these limping sounds as probably identical with those we ourselves had heard.  After I had closed my reply to Mr. F——­, Miss Moore discovered Miss “B——­’s” plan of the house (in the packet of evidence of the H——­s’ tenancy, see p. 96), which showed that in fact No. 8 was the room referred to.  Hence it appears that the room in which Miss H——­ heard the footsteps was the same as that in which we heard them.  We had been misled by Mr. F——­ speaking of “the room you occupied when I left,” a mistake on his part, as, though the change had been spoken of, we had not left No. 1.

   This afternoon Miss Langton experimented with Ouija at Mr. 
   “Q.’s” request.

Lord Bute had suggested various test-questions in relation to the phantasm of the nun, to be asked the next time the Ouija board was in operation, and answers to these were attempted at various times, with the usual result of showing the influence, conscious or sub-conscious, of the sitters, almost all statements as to matters not actually known to them being worthless.  On this occasion, however, in reply to the question, “How old was Ishbel when she died?” answers were spelt out to the effect that she was still living, and that her age was fifty-nine.

This may perhaps be taken as throwing light upon the intended personality of Ishbel, and supplying a possible clue to the identity of the mind of which she seems to be an imaginary creation.

Fifty-nine was the age of the late Rev. Mother Frances Helen in the year 1873, when Sarah N——­ died.  They are not people who are at all likely to have met each other upon “the other side” any more than upon this.

It is a generally recognised fact that the conditions which we call “time and space” exist on in the world beyond in a form so very different from those in which they are conceived of by us, that from our point of view they can hardly be said to exist at all.  It is natural, therefore, to seek the utterer of this remarkable statement in some person connected with B——­ who did not know the late Mother Frances Helen (supposing her to be the person for whom Ishbel was intended), but had heard of her.

   February 22nd, Monday.—­Mr.  “Z——­” came.