came up
at 7.30, when I asked the maid if she had been disturbed, and
she replied that the servants had been extra busy the day
before, had gone to bed early, and had slept soundly.

Miss Langton and Mr. T---- attest the above as a correct account
of our experience, so far as they were concerned.

The following is from Miss Langton's private diary:--

"Miss Freer, Mr. T----, and I all agreed that, as it was the
anniversary of the old Major's death, we would sit to-night in
his own sitting-room, which we always call 'the downstairs
smoking-room.' Just before dinner, Miss Freer, who was sitting
between the writing-table and fireplace, suddenly called out,
'What is Spooks running after?' and then she said that there
were _two_ black dogs in the room, and that the other dog was
larger than Spooks she said, 'like a spaniel.'

"After dinner we three sat round the fire and played games;
suddenly one of us called out, 'Listen to those footsteps,' and
then we _distinctly_ heard a heavy man walking round the room,
coming apparently from the direction of the safe, in the wall
adjoining the billiard room, and then walking towards the door,
passing between us and the fireplace in front of which we were
sitting. It was a very curious sensation, for the steps came so
very close, and yet we saw nothing. Footsteps died away, and we
resumed our game. Three times over we distinctly heard outside
the door the voices of a man and woman, apparently in anger, for
their voices were loud and rough. Each time we jumped up at once
and opened the door quietly--there was nothing to be seen; the
passage was in total darkness, all the servants having gone to
bed (the last time was nearly eleven o'clock). We certified this
fact by making an expedition into the kitchen regions. We then
returned to the smoking-room, and not long after the footsteps
again began in exactly the same direction. This time they lasted
a longer time.

"I slept in No. 8, and was so tired I slept pretty well, but
before going to sleep, just before one o'clock, I heard the
sound of a heavy man in slippers come down the corridor and stop
near my door, and then the sound as of a long argument in
subdued voices, a man and a woman."

On April 9th Miss Freer and Miss Langton left B---- in order to pass
Easter elsewhere, and Mr. T---- left with them.

During Miss Fre