In discussing this, Miss Moore and I agreed that, had Miss H----
slept in No. 8 instead of in No. 1, as Mr. F---- supposed, we
should have considered these limping sounds as probably
identical with those we ourselves had heard. After I had closed
my reply to Mr. F----, Miss Moore discovered Miss "B----'s" plan
of the house (in the packet of evidence of the H----s' tenancy,
see p. 96), which showed that in fact No. 8 _was_ the room
referred to. Hence it appears that the room in which Miss H----
heard the footsteps was the same as that in which _we_ heard
them. We had been misled by Mr. F---- speaking of "the room you
occupied when I left," a mistake on his part, as, though the
change had been spoken of, we had not left No. 1.
This afternoon Miss Langton experimented with Ouija at Mr.
"Q.'s" request.
Lord Bute had suggested various test-questions in relation to the
phantasm of the nun, to be asked the next time the Ouija board was in
operation, and answers to these were attempted at various times, with
the usual result of showing the influence, conscious or sub-conscious,
of the sitters, almost all statements as to matters not actually known
to them being worthless. On this occasion, however, in reply to the
question, "How old was Ishbel when she died?" answers were spelt out
to the effect that she was still living, and that her age was
fifty-nine.
This may perhaps be taken as throwing light upon the intended
personality of Ishbel, and supplying a possible clue to the identity
of the mind of which she seems to be an imaginary creation.
Fifty-nine was the age of the late Rev. Mother Frances Helen in the
year 1873, when Sarah N---- died. They are not people who are at all
likely to have met each other upon "the other side" any more than upon
this.
It is a generally recognised fact that the conditions which we call
"time and space" exist on in the world beyond in a form so very
different from those in which they are conceived of by us, that from
our point of view they can hardly be said to exist at all. It is
natural, therefore, to seek the utterer of this remarkable statement
in some person connected with B---- who did not know the late Mother
Frances Helen (supposing her to be the person for whom Ishbel was
intended), but had heard of her.
_February 22nd, Monday._--Mr. "Z----" _came_.
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