This is Mrs. M----'s account of last
night. "Last evening we were late for dinner, as Mr. M---- and I
had been out to see the nun by the burn, but had seen nothing.
The whole evening I had a sort of half consciously disagreeable
feeling, and when I went to my room it was some time before I
could make up my mind to get into bed. The servants very much
annoyed me; they were making such a needless amount of noise in
running about the room overhead. [The room overhead was empty.
Since their adventure of March 23rd, the servants had slept on
the other side of the house.] At last I got into bed, and I may
say I hardly slept a wink the whole night. I simply lay in
terror, of what I cannot say, but I had the feeling of some very
disagreeable sensation in the air, but we did not hear a sound
all night from the time we got into bed until we got up next
morning at 8.30.

"I spent the whole of the morning in the drawing-room writing
letters and reading, and from time to time I went up to No. 1 to
get books and different things, and each time was a little
surprised to find the room empty, as there had been a ceaseless
noise of housemaids, and very noisy ones too. I also heard what
I had described before as the cannon. After luncheon Miss Freer
and Miss Langton and I went out walking, and just as we were
coming in to tea we all three heard the cannon, and then I said
that is the noise I heard every morning, and sometimes in the
evening, in the drawing-room."

This afternoon we were having tea in the drawing-room at 4.30,
Mrs. M----, Miss Langton, and myself. We heard some one walking
overhead in No. 1, a sound we have heard often before, when we
knew the room to be empty above. Mrs. M---- remarked that it was
just the sound she had heard, again and again, when sitting
alone in the drawing-room.

It was so exactly the heavy, heelless steps we had heard before,
that Miss L---- ran upstairs softly to see if any one was there,
but found no one about. Next we heard a loud bang--not of a
door--in the hall, and she went out again to ascertain the
cause, and met the butler on the same errand. We could find
nothing to account for it. It was like the noise before
described, of something dropped heavily into the hall from the
gallery above.

There had been so much trouble of ascertaining whether the
noises were caused b