same sensation. The highest point on the
'Switchback' is the nearest to it in my experience. I was wide
awake at the time, so it was no nightmare."]

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Miss "Duff" thus continues her account of Tuesday, March 23rd:--

"This morning, as I sat in the drawing-room, I heard the low,
monotonous voice of some one reading aloud. Knowing that Miss
Freer and Miss Langton were writing in the next room, I
concluded that Miss Freer must be dictating while Miss Langton
wrote for her, although I must say I did not recognise Miss
Freer's voice. This went on for about an hour. Soon after Miss
Langton came into the drawing-room, and I said, 'Well, you
_have_ been busy; I suppose Miss Freer has been dictating to
you?' She looked surprised and said, 'No, indeed she hasn't; we
have both been writing, and if Miss Freer spoke at all, it was
only a few words now and again.'" This low monotonous sound of a
human voice I afterwards heard once or twice in Room 3.

_March 24th, Wednesday._--Last night I heard a crash as of
something falling from the dome into the hall, about twenty
minutes to twelve.

At breakfast Colonel C---- said he had heard a loud thump on his
door at an early hour--before six, when wide awake.

Mr. W---- also had had an experience. He heard sounds outside
his room, and went to investigate. On returning he found the
kitten in his room, but, sceptic as he is, he acknowledged
freely that the kitten, a wee thing, could not have produced the
sounds he heard.

_Copy of letter from_ Mr. W---- _to_ Mr. MacP----.

"_March 24th, 1897._-- ... In case it may interest Miss Freer to
know what I thought of the noises I heard in No. 1 prior to the
kitten incident, the following states my recollections shortly:
The first noise was about half-past four, and resembled two
small explosions, such as a fire sometimes makes. They followed
one another closely, and came from the direction of the
fireplace or the south-west corner of the room. I got up and
looked at the fire, and it was all but out; but I would not like
to swear that the noises did not come from it.

"As to the other noise, it occurred about a quarter to six, and
was quite loud. It sounded as if one of the large, deer heads on
the staircase wall had fallen down and rolled a step or two. I
cannot understand how some