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In the afternoon Miss Moore and I called on Mrs. S----.

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_March 11th, Thursday._--Very wet day, no phenomena.

_March 12th, Friday._--Another wet day. I had had a headache all
day, and was unable to join the others in a walk when the rain
cleared off, but I went out, alone, about 6.30 to the copse.
Standing in my usual place, I saw the nun coming over the hill
towards the burn; she stood nearly opposite to me, looking down
to the water for a few minutes, and then moved away towards the
avenue. I followed as quickly as possible, but when I got to the
drive she was still a few yards ahead of me, and I failed to
catch her up, though I pursued her down to the lodge, about two
hundred yards; she then, passing through the gates, turned to
the left, and I lost her in the obscurity of the road, which is
there darkened by heavy trees. When I returned to the house I
was still in so much pain that I took a sedative draught and
went to bed, and to sleep at once.

With regard to the above it may be remarked that the way she came led
from B---- Cottage, where by the kindness of Mr. S---- some nuns had
formerly spent their annual holiday, and the road on which she
disappeared was a way which would have led back to it.

_March 13th, Saturday._--At ten o'clock last night Miss Moore
woke me to take some food. I was still under the influence of
the opiate, and did not really rouse, even when she came to bed
half-an-hour later. We did not speak till I was aroused by a
loud banging noise, when, in answer to my startled exclamation,
Miss Moore suggested that it was probably the servants shutting
up downstairs, as we were early, and they had very likely not
yet gone to bed. I was much annoyed, as I knew they had been
cautioned to keep quiet, and even the maid had not been allowed
to enter my room. This morning, when Miss Moore went to see the
housekeeper, the butler came in and asked if we had heard any
noises last night, about a quarter to eleven o'clock, he
thought, after every one had gone up to bed; adding, "It was two
bangs like a fist on a door, and I said, 'If that isn't Miss
Moore or Miss Langton, I'll believe in the noises they all talk
about,'--it's just like wh