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

"As I was talking to Miss Langton at the door of her room (No.
2) on my way to dress for dinner, a double bang on the door came
from the inside of room No. 1, which was the one Captain B----
had occupied, and where he had heard nothing. At the same moment
Miss Langton called out that there had been a bang on the door
between her room and No. 1. For a moment I hesitated to go in,
but a housemaid came down the corridor at that moment to see
what the noise was she had heard, and we investigated together,
but to no purpose."

Miss Langton writes further under this date:--

"I heard three distinct bangs at the lower part of the door of
my room leading into the corridor. I described it to myself as a
person coming along the corridor towards No. 2, walking in an
unsteady way, and as if he could not see where he was going, and
then walking straight against the door of my room and banging
his foot against it. Miss 'Duff' this morning acted at our
request as I have just described, and the noise she made was an
exact reproduction of what I heard last night. The bang occurred
at three intervals--at 11.35, 11.45, and 11.50."

_March 27th, Saturday._--Mr. ---- and Miss "Duff" left. Miss
Langton and I are now alone.

Miss "Duff" was undisturbed last night.

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There was very little wind last night, as I happen to know in
the following connection. Carter twice over, about 11.30 and
again after midnight, heard the sounds of reading, which she
imitated to me this morning--like the monotoning of a psalm. She
called out to two other maids to listen, and all three heard it.
She felt sure it was not the wind or the pipes. Both the
gardener and the gamekeeper say it was a very quiet night.

_March 28th, Sunday._--As it had been suggested that practical
joking or malicious mischief were in question, we were a good
deal on the _qui vive_ to-night, being alone. I watched from
behind the curtain at an open window from 10.30 P.M. till after
midnight, and again from 4.30 A.M. to 6 A.M. The night was windy
and there was a good deal of noise, but very different in kind
from any of our usual phenomena. We found that there were peopl