and we knew that the room underneath us was empty, and the shutters up, and that all who were in the house were either in the drawing-room or the servants’ hall.

In a few minutes we again heard the pacing footsteps, up and down, up and down; we heard them at intervals during half-an-hour.  We also heard voices as of a man and woman talking.  I went to the foot of the stairs, just below the door of No. 1, and heard them plain.  Mrs. M——­ is not quick of hearing, but she heard them distinctly several times.  At 5.20 we heard the maids go up the stone staircase, coming away from their tea, and though we listened till after six, the other sounds did not occur again.

   April 2nd, Friday.

   [Mr. M——­ left early, Mrs. M——­ remaining till a later train.]

At 11.15 Miss Langton and I were in the library at two different tables writing.  The room was silent.  Suddenly we heard a heavy blow struck on a third table, ten feet at least away from either of us.  I instantly fetched Mrs. M——­, and in her hearing Miss Langton imitated the sound on the same table, by hitting with her fist as heavily as possible.  There is a drawer in the table, empty, which added to the vibration, and also pendent brass handles.  I tried, but could not make noise enough.  We kept watch in the room till lunch, Mrs. M——­ keeping guard when we were obliged to leave, but nothing happened till, when we were sitting at luncheon (there is only a single door and a curtain between the two rooms), we heard it again as above described.

One of the informants, who described the scene which occurred the day the late Mr. S——­ left this house for the last time, said “a very heavy blow like a man’s fist came on the table between them.”  This is the same room.

The same sound occurred again while we were at lunch in the dining-room just now.  The first time Miss Langton rushed to the library and found a housemaid there at the stove, so we agreed it should not count.  It occurred again in about five minutes, and again she went into the room (which is next the dining-room) and found it empty and no one in the hall.

   Mrs. M——­, whom I asked to locate the sound, pointed to just
   that part of the wall by the table upon which the knock had
   struck.

     Signed (as correct) by Mrs. M——­ and Miss Langton.

   (I have since asked the housemaid if she heard anything, and she
   says no, she was making too much noise herself.  We all heard it
   distinctly, above the clatter of the fire-irons.)

   On April 9th Mr. M——­ sent me the following account of his
   impressions:—­