gathering fir-cones, to fetch a basket out of the library, and heard so much noise going on in the drawing-room that she went in to investigate.  It was empty and silent.  The noise was a violent hammering on the door between the two rooms on the drawing-room side.

The two rooms below the library and drawing-room were empty, and shuttered (the smoking-room and billiard-room), No. 1 was disused (over the drawing-room), and Miss Langton found no one in No. 8 (over the library).  She came back and told me at once.

   I have now had the following rooms locked up and the keys taken
   away by the butler:—­

   Ground floor:  All the wing and drawing-room.

   Above:  2, 3, 4, 6, and 7. (I am sleeping in No. 5, Miss Langton
   in No. 8.)

   Basement:  Smoking and billiard rooms.

Mr. T——­ arrived in the afternoon.  We were all out till dinner-time.  While at dinner, we all three, as well as the butler, heard steps walking overhead in No. 7, as we did last night.

April 4th, Sunday.—­I was wakened early this morning by the sound of a crash.  As it was mixed with my dreams I did not think it worth while to get up and investigate, but looked at my watch.  It was twenty minutes to six.  Five minutes later I heard another crash under the dome—­of the kind so often described—­and looked out, but the house was perfectly still.  I heard the servants come down about seven o’clock.

   Miss Langton, sleeping in No. 8, describes the same sounds at
   the same moment.

   Mr. B. S——­ and Miss S——­, brother and sister of the
   proprietor, called.

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   Mr. T——­ writes under this date:—­

“April 4th, Sunday.—­I heard footsteps overhead last evening while at dinner.  Sleeping in No. 1.  To bed about 11 P.M.  To sleep in about half-an-hour.  Meanwhile I heard sounds as of reading aloud in No. 8.  Woke at 6.20.  Heard voices in No. 8 again.”

April 5th, Monday.—­Mr. T——­ said at breakfast that he had heard sounds as of some one reading in Miss Langton’s room, No. 8, between 11.0 and 11.30 P.M., and again the sound of voices from the same room in the morning.  Miss Langton was alone, nor, as we have proved—­(see under date March 2nd)—­could any sound of reading or speaking have been heard, had any really existed.

   April 6th, Tuesday.—­Mr. T——­ writes under this date:—­