conviction of all the maids.

For the future they wish to occupy one room.

The cook, sleeping on the ground floor below No. 3, heard
footsteps and knockings, and awoke her husband, but he heard
nothing. She diagnosed it as being "about the door of Miss
'Duff's' room (No. 3 above). She thought it was outside of her
door, but was not sure. It was just after midnight.

Miss "Duff" writes on the same day:--

"Last night I had just got into bed, when I heard footsteps, so,
always on the alert for phenomena, I listened and was relieved
(? disappointed would be better!) to hear Mr. ---- cough, so I
settled down to sleep. A quarter of an hour or twenty minutes
later (about twelve o'clock) I again heard steps, but this time
they came from the back-stair and shuffled past my room, and
then I heard a loud fall against what seemed to me the door of
room No. 1, which is practically next door to mine.[E]

"I went to listen, but not a sound was to be heard, and I saw no
one. It could not have been the gentleman who was occupying that
room [Mr. W----], as I heard him (with others) come up a quarter
of an hour later and go into his room. Although the fall seemed
_against_ the door of No. 1, I must add that the depth and
quality of the noise was as if a large body had fallen far away,
of which we only, as it were, heard the echo, but that _quite
distinctly on_ the door of No. 1."

[Miss Langton testifies to being disturbed by the same sounds in
No. 2, the dressing-room between Miss "Duff's" room and Mr.
W----'s.]

Miss "Duff" continues:--

"_March 25th._--Last night I felt my bed shake, as if some one
had taken it in both hands, but as there was a high wind, I did
not take much notice of this. I have had my bed shaken
violently in that room once before, however, when there was no
wind at all."

Mr. MacP---- and Captain B---- left. The only phenomenon to be
noted under this date is the following record by Miss Langton:--

"I heard a loud thump at the door of communication between Nos.
1 and 2 when dressing for dinner, but on going into No. 1 found
it quite empty. A curious point about these noises is that the
knocks on the door between Nos. 1 and 2 have been audible in
this room, No. 2 (in my experience) only when No. 1 is empty,
and in No. 1 only when No. 2 is empty."

_March 26th, Friday._