"About ten minutes after the clock struck six I heard a noise
like a light-footed person running downstairs, which seemed to
adjoin No. 3, where the Colonel was sleeping, and almost
immediately after I heard a loud rapping at the door of No. 1.
After a short pause this occurred again, and I jumped out of
bed. As I opened the door of my room leading into the passage
the rapping sounds occurred again, but less loudly. There was
no one in the passage, and I went back to bed, not having quite
shut my door. No sooner had I done so than there was a knock at
my door, which I thought must be the Colonel coming to speak to
me about the rapping at No. 1. I called out 'Come in,' but there
was no answer, and I accordingly again went to the door, only to
find no one.
"I heard the servants begin to move about at 6.30 above me, and
as seven struck I heard them going through the house.
"The Colonel did not hear anything.
"There are no stairs coming down to the bedroom storey where I
thought I heard footsteps.
"The rapping was not in any way an alarming noise.
"On Saturday night 'Ouija' had said that I was not to be
disturbed that night, so I was 'not expecting.' It also stated
that Nos. 3 and 8 were the rooms that 'the Major' occupied."
* * * * *
_March 8th, Monday._--Mr. C---- left early. He has promised to
write of any experience last night, as he was gone before we
were up. Colonel Taylor is still in No. 3; he has heard nothing,
but this is perhaps the less evidential, that, although a
frequent visitor to haunted houses, he has never had any
experience.
We are still in No. 8, in which we have had a sufficient number
of experiences to make us anxious to distribute responsibility
by handing it over to another sensitive at the earliest
possibility. Miss Langton has hitherto slept in No. 4, in which
she was put on her first arrival, except for the three nights
she was in No. 2, with companionship in the adjacent rooms.
There seems to be no object in the Colonel remaining in No. 3,
as he is unlikely to see or hear anything, and as soon as that
side of the house is quite emptied she proposes to go into No.
1, as we are anxious to discover whether her experience will
corroborate that of Miss Moore, myself, Mrs. B. C----, Mr.
Garford, and the maids, as to the sound of voices.
_March 9th, Tuesday._--Mr. C---- writes this morning in regard
to Sunday night: "_March 8th._--... Last night I was not so much
disturbed, but I awoke at 3.10, and did not sleep after that. I
had exactly the same sensation as on the previous night, that
whenever I was going to sleep something woke me. At 5.20 I heard
three noises very close together, but they were very distant,
and sounded from the direction of your room" (No. 8).
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