got into bed.  Contrary to my usual custom I did not fall asleep for some time, and I felt that the room was, in some inexplicable way, not as usual.  At last I fell asleep, but not comfortably.  I kept waking, and for some time after each awakening I could not get to sleep again.  I put this down, however, to the fact that I wanted to waken early the next morning, and was restless in consequence.  At last I really fell asleep, but at 4.30 I suddenly awakened with the feeling that I was not alone in the room.  I looked round; the room was quite dark; the moon was not shining, but between the bed and the wardrobe there was a figure standing.  At first it was very indistinct and misty, but gradually it formed itself into the figure of a woman—­a slight, tall woman, with a pale face.  She was dressed in long robes, but the upper part was the only part I could see clearly.  Round her face and head was a white band, like that worn by a nun, and over her head was what might have been a black hood or small shawl, but in the darkness it was very difficult to distinguish.  I could not see what her features were like, but she looked as if she were in trouble, and entreating some one to help her.  She stood for some few moments at the foot of my bed looking towards me, and then she made a movement towards the door, but before she reached it she had vanished.  I was not at all frightened, as there was nothing at all alarming in her appearance.  I cannot write a better description of her, as the vision was so short.  The figure was the same as that I had seen at the burn, only very much clearer.”

Miss “Duff” writes under this date March 21st:—­“On my arrival yesterday I was shown to my room (No. 3), which I had selected, with Miss Freer’s permission, as one said to have an evil reputation.  Perhaps it was natural that a feeling ’as if I were not alone’ should come over me, and needless to say there was no apparent cause for this!

“As a rule I am a very sound sleeper, nothing ever disturbs me; but last night I was suddenly wide awake, as if roused by something unusual.  I sat up quickly in bed, but suddenly remembering where I was, I waited expectantly.  Nothing occurred, although I did not get to sleep again for about two hours.”

March 22nd, Monday.—­Mr. MacP——­ was awakened between four and five by heavy footsteps overhead.  We made many experiments to account for it, and of course made inquiries among the servants, but could find no cause.  We are the more interested that hitherto nothing has been heard by our party in his room, No. 4, though there is a tradition of earlier disturbances there.

Mr. MacP——­ has furnished the following account of his experience:—­

“As usual I went to bed about 12 P.M.  I had no desire to be disturbed, and so my room was still No. 4, which I had originally selected as being reputed innocuous, and which, save in one slight instance, I had hitherto found to deserve its reputation.  My repeated visits had eliminated any expectancy which may at first have, perhaps, existed.