formerly spent their annual holiday, and the road on which she
disappeared was a way which would have led back to it.

_March 13th, Saturday._--At ten o'clock last night Miss Moore
woke me to take some food. I was still under the influence of
the opiate, and did not really rouse, even when she came to bed
half-an-hour later. We did not speak till I was aroused by a
loud banging noise, when, in answer to my startled exclamation,
Miss Moore suggested that it was probably the servants shutting
up downstairs, as we were early, and they had very likely not
yet gone to bed. I was much annoyed, as I knew they had been
cautioned to keep quiet, and even the maid had not been allowed
to enter my room. This morning, when Miss Moore went to see the
housekeeper, the butler came in and asked if we had heard any
noises last night, about a quarter to eleven o'clock, he
thought, after every one had gone up to bed; adding, "It was two
bangs like a fist on a door, and I said, 'If that isn't Miss
Moore or Miss Langton, I'll believe in the noises they all talk
about,'--it's just like what the gentlemen told me."

His wife had also heard the bangs, but had waited for him to
speak to her of them, and the maids on the other side of the
house had been roused to come to their door and listen.

The footman, who sleeps in the basement, and the Colonel, who
was in the smoking-room in the wing till 11.30, heard nothing;
but Miss Langton, in No. 4, to whom Miss Moore mentioned the
servants' story, had heard noises "between 10.30 and 10.45," but
had not been disturbed, thinking, as we had done, that they were
probably made by the servants.