accordingly secured the services of three members of a famous society; one of those was the Rev. P——­ H——­ himself, one a well-known Oxford man who takes much interest in such questions, and the third a man of great experience at a place where miracles are said to be frequent.  However, their Superior refused to allow them to come, and she then applied to a well-known monastery, but was again refused help.  Lastly, she turned to the secular clergy, and obtained the assistance of two priests and a bishop.  The priests are here designated MacD——­ and MacL——.  All three were previously well known to her, and she had especial reason to consider them not only worthy of her esteem and confidence, but, moreover, as taking an instructed and intelligent interest in the subject.

   April 29th, Friday.—­Rooms for to-night:—­

    No. 3.  Rev. A. MacD——.
    " 4.  Rev. A. MacL——.
    " 8.  Myself.

The priests arrived late in the evening.  I put them in No. 3 and 4, though I like to give No. 1 to new-comers.  However, I had promised that to Madame Boisseaux, whom we are expecting from Paris, with the dressing-room for her maid.

   April 30th.—­The priests both look very weary.  They were not
   frightened, but the sounds have kept them awake all night.

   Young S——­ called to-day; he is going to help me to get up a
   dance for the servants.  His mother is away at S——.

May 1st.—­I shall have to move the priests.  They persist that they are not frightened, but they are both looking shockingly ill and worn, and the Rev. MacD——­ is not in a state of health to take liberties with.  The Rev. MacL——­ seems in the same mental state as was Mr. P——.  He sees nothing, but is supernormally sensitive, and without any hint from me, declared that he felt the drawing-room, wing, and No. 7 to be “innocent.”

Poor little “Spooks” is the chief sufferer.  She sleeps on my bed now, but even so, wakes in the night growling and shivering, and she refuses her food, and is in a dreadfully nervous state.  Perhaps I ought not to keep her in No. 8, where we have so often heard the patterings of dogs’ feet, and where Miss Moore was once pushed as by a dog, in broad daylight.

May 2nd.—­Nothing occurred.  We perhaps all slept the sounder last night, having been kept up till two o’clock waiting for Madame Boisseaux, who never turned up.  She and the M——­s and Mrs.  “F.” arrived to-day.

Madame Boisseaux arrived, and was put into No. 1. 
Her maid                           "       "   2. 
Father MacD——­                    "       "   3. 
Father MacL——­                    "       "   4. 
Mrs.  “F.”                          "       "   5. 
Mr. and Mrs. M——­                 "       "   6 and 7. 
Myself                             "       "   8.

May 3rd.—­The general