after the way of old flooring when a heavy man moves about.  After going on for some time the movement stopped, and again, after a pause, began again.  The movement, whatever it was, occurred four times, with three pauses in between.  The durations of the movement and pauses were irregular.  After the noise ceased I got up and lit the candle.  The time was 5.25, and I read for twenty-five minutes, when I felt sleepy and blew out the candle.  I did not, however, go to sleep, and I heard six strike.  The day was dawning.  The rooks I first heard about 5.35, when I was reading.

“About ten minutes after the clock struck six I heard a noise like a light-footed person running downstairs, which seemed to adjoin No. 3, where the Colonel was sleeping, and almost immediately after I heard a loud rapping at the door of No. 1.  After a short pause this occurred again, and I jumped out of bed.  As I opened the door of my room leading into the passage the rapping sounds occurred again, but less loudly.  There was no one in the passage, and I went back to bed, not having quite shut my door.  No sooner had I done so than there was a knock at my door, which I thought must be the Colonel coming to speak to me about the rapping at No. 1.  I called out ‘Come in,’ but there was no answer, and I accordingly again went to the door, only to find no one.

   “I heard the servants begin to move about at 6.30 above me, and
   as seven struck I heard them going through the house.

   “The Colonel did not hear anything.

   “There are no stairs coming down to the bedroom storey where I
   thought I heard footsteps.

   “The rapping was not in any way an alarming noise.

   “On Saturday night ‘Ouija’ had said that I was not to be
   disturbed that night, so I was ‘not expecting.’  It also stated
   that Nos. 3 and 8 were the rooms that ‘the Major’ occupied.”

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March 8th, Monday.—­Mr. C——­ left early.  He has promised to write of any experience last night, as he was gone before we were up.  Colonel Taylor is still in No. 3; he has heard nothing, but this is perhaps the less evidential, that, although a frequent visitor to haunted houses, he has never had any experience.

We are still in No. 8, in which we have had a sufficient number of experiences to make us anxious to distribute responsibility by handing it over to another sensitive at the earliest possibility.  Miss Langton has hitherto slept in No. 4, in which she was put on her first arrival, except for the three nights she was in No. 2, with companionship in the adjacent rooms.  There seems to be no object in the Colonel remaining in No. 3, as he is unlikely to see or hear anything, and as soon as that side of the house is quite emptied she proposes to go into No. 1, as we are anxious to discover whether her experience will corroborate that of