d down
about six o'clock. We saw nothing, but our dog Scamp growled at
the fir plantation beside the road.

Mr. L. F---- [eminent as an electrical engineer], arrived about
10 P.M. We thought it polite to give him a quiet night after so
long a journey, and he is sleeping in No. 5.

_February 5th, Friday._--Miss Moore and I slept well. We were
both desperately tired.

Mr. L. F---- awoke suddenly at 2.30. No phenomena. He has an
excellent little apparatus, an electric flashlight, which he is
able to keep under his pillow and turn on at a second's notice,
very convenient for "ghost" hunting--no delay, and no
possibility of blowing it out.

The maids tell mine that they heard the sounds below them of
continuous speaking or reading, and "supposed the young ladies
were reading to one another."

This is the first occasion on which there has been mention of the
sound of continuous reading aloud, which afterwards became extremely
familiar. The sound was always that well known to Roman Catholics as
that of a priest "saying his office." It may be as well to remind the
reader that Clerks in Holy Orders of that Church are, like those of
the Anglican, strictly bound to read through the whole of the Daily
Service every day, and it is not permitted to do this merely by the
eye, the lips must utter the words. In practice some are accustomed
to move the lips with hardly any sound, and such, we have ascertained,
is the custom of the Rev. P---- H----; others read it absolutely
aloud, and will retire to their own rooms or other places, where they
may be alone for the purpose. This, we heard, was the invariable
practice of the Rev. Mr. "I.," the chaplain of Mr. and Mrs. "G."

As a matter of fact, we were sleeping on the other side of the
house, and the rooms under the maids' rooms were empty.... In
the evening, about six o'clock, we strolled down the avenue
again, and Scamp, who never does bark except under strong
excitement, again barked and growled at the copse.

The Hon. E. F----, a fellow-member of an S.P.R. committee,
arrives to-night. Hospitality constrains us to put him in No. 4,
which is "not haunted."

I asked after the success of the new kitchenmaid, a local
importation, who arrived yesterday. I was told she had already
gone. The cook told me "she talked all sorts of nonsense about
the house, and the things that had happened in it, and had be