ow him to share his room, that they heard
much, but they dared not show a light for fear of his admission
being discovered (the H----s being much on the alert), and they
saw nothing [_cf._ p. 40 for evidence of the H----s' butler].

We did not like to send for him on a Sunday, but decided to have
him in on Monday, and test him as to the intensity of the noise.

In the evening, while we were all chatting in the drawing-room,
Miss Moore came out into the hall, where she had been looking
after the dog. In spite of the noise we were all making, she
distinctly heard the clang noise upstairs. She had said the same
thing, though with less certainty, once before, and we agreed
that one night some one must sit up in the hall. (This was
afterwards done without result.)

_February 8th, Monday._--Last night my maid heard footsteps and
the sound of hands fumbling on her door; this she told us when
she came in with our early tea.

Miss Moore in the early morning, between one and two, heard
again the sharp, reverberating bang as before. We speculated at
breakfast as to whether the sound could have been made by the
men after we had gone upstairs, though they were all sure of
having been quite still before midnight. We made them rehearse
every sound they had in fact made, but nothing was in the least
like it, either in quality or quantity.

I had been disturbed about 5.30 A.M. by the sound (which we had
not heard hitherto) described by former witnesses as
"explosive." I know of nothing quite like it. I have heard the
Portsmouth guns when at a place eight miles away; the sound was
like that, but did not convey the same impression of distance. I
heard it, at intervals, during half-an-hour. Miss Moore is a
very light sleeper, but she did not awake. At six I got up and
went through my room to the dressing-room door (No. 6), after a
sound that seemed especially near. It was so near, that though I
thought it quite unlikely under the circumstances, I wanted to
satisfy myself that no one was playing jokes on Mr. C----, whose
room was close by. The house was deadly still. I could hear the
clocks ticking on the stairs. As I stood, the sound came again.
It might have been caused by a very heavy fall of snow from a
high roof--not sliding, but percussive. Miss Moore had wakened
up and heard it too.

(_N.B._--We afterwards foun