the rest of his dress to Mr Hampson, and he to me at the time, but I have now forgot the other particulars.) He walked down by the sash window to the corner of the room, and then returned.  When he came at the first window in his return (the bottom of which was nearly breast-high) he rested his elbow on the bottom of the window, and the side of his face upon the palm of his hand, and stood in that leaning posture for some time, with his side partly towards her.  She looked at him earnestly to see if she knew him, but though, from her frequent intercourse with them, she had a personal knowledge of all the present family, he appeared a stranger to her.  She supposed afterwards that he stood in this manner to encourage her to speak; but as she did not, after some little time he walked off, pulling the door after him as the servants had done before.  She began now to be much alarmed, concluding it to be an apparition and that they had put her there on purpose.  This was really the case.  The room, it seems, had been disturbed for a long time, so that nobody could sleep peaceably in it; and as she passed for a very serious woman, the servants took it in their heads to put the Methodist and spirit together, to see what they would make out of it.  Startled at this thought, she rose from her chair, and kneeled down by the bedside to say her prayers.  While she was praying he came in again, walked round the room and came close behind her.  She had it on her mind to speak, but when she attempted it she was so very much agitated that she could not utter a word.  He walked out of the room again, pulling the door shut as before.  She begged that God would strengthen her, and not suffer her to be tried beyond what she was able to bear; she recovered her surprise and thought she felt more confidence and resolution, and determined if he came in again she would speak to him if possible.  He presently came in again, walked round, and came behind her as before; she turned her head and said, “Pray, sir, who are you, and what do you want?” He put up his finger and said, “Take up the candle and follow me, and I will tell you.”  She got up, took up the candle and followed him out of the room.  He led her through a long boarded passage, till they came to the door of another room which he opened and went in; it was a small room, or what might be called a large closet.  “As the room was small, and I believed him to be a spirit,” said she, “I stopped at the door; he turned and said, ‘Walk in, I will not hurt you’; so I walked in.  He said, ‘Observe what I do’; I said, ‘I will.’  He stooped and tore up one of the boards of the floor, and there appeared under it a box with an iron handle in the lid.  He said, ‘Do you see that box?’ I said, ‘Yes, I do.’  He then stepped to one side of the room and showed me a crevice in the wall, where he said a key was hid that would open it.  He said, ’This box and key must be taken out, and sent to the Earl in London’ (naming the Earl and his residence in the city).  He said,