up and watched.  The steps were those of a rather heavy person in heelless shoes, who walked to the door, and came back again, passed close behind Mr. T——­’s chair, crossed the hearth-rug just in front of me, and stopped at or about the north-east corner, but—­it seemed—­remained in the room, behind Miss Langton’s chair.  We heard them again about 10.30; we also heard sounds several times during the evening of the talking of a man and woman.  Three times over Miss Langton and Mr. T——­ went out to listen, but the house was perfectly quiet, and though we were on the same floor with the servants, there had been, the whole time, three closed doors between us and their quarters in the wing, which also was in the direction opposite that from which the sounds came (the present billiard-room).  About 10.45, Miss Langton and I went up to the dining-room in search of refreshment; everything upstairs seemed perfectly still, and the servants had long before gone to bed.  Mr. T——­ followed us up, and as we went back to the smoking-room, the voices seemed to be in high argument just inside.  We could distinguish no words, though the timbre of the voices is perfectly clear in my memory.  About 12.20 we went to bed.  I had intended to sit up in No. 8, but found I was not equal to it, and Miss Langton would not accept my offer of sleeping there with her.  She was therefore there alone, I in No. 5, and Mr. T——­ in No. 1.  I had not been many minutes in my room when I heard the familiar loud crash as of something falling into the hall, under the dome, and rushed out immediately—­the house was perfectly still.  We had left a small lamp burning in the corridor.  Mr. T——­ said, next morning, that he had also came out at the sound, but must have been later than I, as he was just in time to see my door shut.  About twenty minutes after, I heard the shuffling footsteps come up the stairs, and pause near my door; I opened it, and saw nothing, but was so definitely conscious of the presence of a personality, that I addressed it in terms which need not be set down here, but of which I may say that they were intended to be of the utmost seriousness, while helpful and encouraging.  I may add, that I knew from experience of the acoustic qualities of the house, that I should not be audible to those in Nos. 1 or 8.  Absolutely, while I was speaking, the voices we had heard downstairs became audible again, this time it seemed to me outside the door of No. 8; they were certainly the same voices, but seemed to be consciously lowered. (Miss Langton’s account will show that she heard voices and footsteps outside her door at about this time.) I was asleep before the clock struck two, but was awakened again about 3.30, and was kept awake for more than an hour by various sounds in the house.  Roughly speaking, these were of two kinds:  one, those of distant clangs and crashes which we have heard many times in varying intensity, loudest of all on our first night and on this.  The other (more human in