r-cones, to fetch a basket out
of the library, and heard so much noise going on in the
drawing-room that she went in to investigate. It was empty and
silent. The noise was a violent hammering on the door between
the two rooms on the drawing-room side.

The two rooms below the library and drawing-room were empty, and
shuttered (the smoking-room and billiard-room), No. 1 was
disused (over the drawing-room), and Miss Langton found no one
in No. 8 (over the library). She came back and told me at once.

I have now had the following rooms locked up and the keys taken
away by the butler:--

Ground floor: All the wing and drawing-room.

Above: 2, 3, 4, 6, and 7. (I am sleeping in No. 5, Miss Langton
in No. 8.)

Basement: Smoking and billiard rooms.

Mr. T---- arrived in the afternoon. We were all out till
dinner-time. While at dinner, we all three, as well as the
butler, heard steps walking overhead in No. 7, as we did last
night.

_April 4th, Sunday._--I was wakened early this morning by the
sound of a crash. As it was mixed with my dreams I did not think
it worth while to get up and investigate, but looked at my
watch. It was twenty minutes to six. Five minutes later I heard
another crash under the dome--of the kind so often
described--and looked out, but the house was perfectly still. I
heard the servants come down about seven o'clock.

Miss Langton, sleeping in No. 8, describes the same sounds at
the same moment.

Mr. B. S---- and Miss S----, brother and sister of the
proprietor, called.

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Mr. T---- writes under this date:--

"_April 4th, Sunday._--I heard footsteps overhead last evening
while at dinner. Sleeping in No. 1. To bed about 11 P.M. To
sleep in about half-an-hour. Meanwhile I heard sounds as of
reading aloud in No. 8. Woke at 6.20. Heard voices in No. 8
again."

_April 5th, Monday._--Mr. T---- said at breakfast that he had
heard sounds as of some one reading in Miss Langton's room, No.
8, between 11.0 and 11.30 P.M., and again the sound of voices
from the same room in the morning. Miss Langton was alone, nor,
as we have proved--(see under date March 2nd)--could any sound
of reading or speaking have been hear