April 8th, Thursday.—­We had planned to leave yesterday, but it was borne in upon me that to-day being the anniversary of the Major’s death, it would be a pity—­on the hypothesis of there being anything supernormal in these phenomena—­that the house should not be under observation to-night.

In the morning the Land-steward called, having heard from Mrs. S——­ that we had heard footsteps about the house at night, and that I had several times observed a disreputable-looking man about the place, whom I knew not to be one of the farm-servants.

   The admissions hitherto made by him, and by ——­ and ——­, as to
   some of the phenomena, carry the evidence back for over twenty
   years.

I don’t know whether we have been specially on the qui vive to-day, but we seem to have heard bangs and crashes and footsteps overhead all day, though all the rooms, except Nos. 1, 5, and 8 are locked up—­Mr. T——­ occupies No. 1, Miss Langton No. 8, I No. 5.

Acting upon the hints given us by ——­ and ——­, I thought the downstairs smoking-room ought to be specially under observation to-day.  I was suffering from acute headache, and was obliged to lie down in my own room from lunch-time to dinner, and this smoking-room, which is known as “the Major’s room,” was the only sitting-room in use.  A few minutes before dinner, I went down and busied myself in putting my camera to rights.  It was a delicate piece of work, and when I saw a black dog, which I supposed for the moment to be “Spooks” (my Pomeranian), run across the room towards my left, I stopped, fearing that she would shake the little table on which the camera stood.  I immediately saw another dog, really Spooks this time, run towards it from my right, with her ears pricked.  Miss Langton also observed this, and said, “What is Spooks after?” or something of that sort.  A piece of furniture prevented my seeing their meeting, and Spooks came back directly, wagging her tail.  The other dog was larger than Spooks, though it also had long black hair, and might have been a small spaniel.

   [It was not till after we had left B——­ that we learned that
   the Major’s favourite dog was a black spaniel.]

After dinner we returned to this room.  I had intended to try Ouija and the crystal, but was in too much pain to make this possible, and Miss Langton felt she could not do it alone; it was as much as I could do to sit up at all, but, by a strong effort of will, I was able to remain downstairs till after midnight. [I was still occasionally suffering from the results of my accident.] We sat in front of the fire, playing a round game.  About nine we all three heard footsteps coming from the south-west corner and going towards the door; I held up my hand for silence, but I could see, from the direction of their eyes, that they heard the sounds as I did—­even the dog looked