east wall. The room (No. 7) on that side was
unoccupied. [This bang was heard at other times in the same
spot. Experiment showed that no noise made in No. 7 was audible
in No. 8, not even hammering with a poker on the wall, which is
curved at this point.]

This morning, on coming out of church, I received a letter from
Mr. F----, in which was the following passage:--

"... Miss H----, who slept, I believe, in the room occupied by
you when I left, heard sounds of footsteps going round her room,
footsteps with the most unmistakable limp in them. Shortly after
she heard stories connected with the former owner, who used to
go by the name of B----, an aged man [the Major]. She asked if
he could be described. 'No,' said her informant; 'the only thing
he could remember about him was that he had a most peculiar
limp,' and he forthwith gave an exhibition, which tallied
exactly with the limp around the bed."

In discussing this, Miss Moore and I agreed that, had Miss H----
slept in No. 8 instead of in No. 1, as Mr. F---- supposed, we
should have considered these limping sounds as probably
identical with those we ourselves had heard. After I had closed
my reply to Mr. F----, Miss Moore discovered Miss "B----'s" plan
of the house (in the packet of evidence of the H----s' tenancy,
see p. 96), which showed that in fact No. 8 _was_ the room
referred to. Hence it appears that the room in which Miss H----
heard the footsteps was the same as that in which _we_ heard
them. We had been misled by Mr. F---- speaking of "the room you
occupied when I left," a mistake on his part, as, though the
change had been spoken of, we had not left No. 1.

This afternoon Miss Langton experimented with Ouija at Mr.
"Q.'s" request.

Lord Bute had suggested various test-questions in relation to the
phantasm of the nun, to be asked the next time the Ouija board was in
operation, and answers to these were attempted at various times, with
the usual result of showing the influence, conscious or sub-conscious,
of the sitters, almost all statements as to matters not actually known
to them being worthless. On this occasion, however, in reply to the
question, "How old was Ishbel when she died?" answers were spelt out
to the effect that she was still living, and that her age was
fifty-nine.

This may perhaps be taken as throwing light upon the intended
personality of Ishb