ther dog, really Spooks this time, run
towards it from my right, with her ears pricked. Miss Langton
also observed this, and said, "What is Spooks after?" or
something of that sort. A piece of furniture prevented my seeing
their meeting, and Spooks came back directly, wagging her tail.
The other dog was larger than Spooks, though it also had long
black hair, and might have been a small spaniel.

[It was not till after we had left B---- that we learned that
the Major's favourite dog was a black spaniel.]

After dinner we returned to this room. I had intended to try
Ouija and the crystal, but was in too much pain to make this
possible, and Miss Langton felt she could not do it alone; it
was as much as I could do to sit up at all, but, by a strong
effort of will, I was able to remain downstairs till after
midnight. [I was still occasionally suffering from the results
of my accident.] We sat in front of the fire, playing a round
game. About nine we all three heard footsteps coming from the
south-west corner and going towards the door; I held up my hand
for silence, but I could see, from the direction of their eyes,
that they heard the sounds as I did--even the dog looked up and
watched. The steps were those of a rather heavy person in
heelless shoes, who walked to the door, and came back again,
passed close behind Mr. T----'s chair, crossed the hearth-rug
just in front of me, and stopped at or about the north-east
corner, but--it seemed--remained in the room, behind Miss
Langton's chair. We heard them again about 10.30; we also heard
sounds several times during the evening of the talking of a man
and woman. Three times over Miss Langton and Mr. T---- went out
to listen, but the house was perfectly quiet, and though we were
on the same floor with the servants, there had been, the whole
time, three closed doors between us and their quarters in the
wing, which also was in the direction opposite that from which
the sounds came (the present billiard-room). About 10.45, Miss
Langton and I went up to the dining-room in search of
refreshment; everything upstairs seemed perfectly still, and the
servants had long before gone to bed. Mr. T---- followed us up,
and as we went back to the smoking-room, the voices seemed to be
in high argument just inside. We could distinguish no words,
though the _timbre_ of the voices is