things from so favourable a position as I do.

"I hope a change may yet come, and things take place which one
might think would justify people in evacuating and forfeiting
their money as the H----s did; certainly nothing of this sort
happened while I was there.

"It is very interesting to note Miss Freer's experiences, but in
regard to those of others who have something to relate, it is
perhaps difficult to determine how much these statements should
be discounted for error of observation and self-suggestion. I
heard many noises in the night during my stay at B----, but they
were of much the same sort I have been accustomed to hear at a
similar time in other houses. I think that some of our witnesses
may have given them undue prominence, under the influence of
their own expectancy. The clairvoyant visions of 'Ishbel' in the
grounds are not of great evidential value for the scientific
world in general, and I think that any amount of 'voices' could
be read into the noises of the running stream, near where she is
seen, by those who 'wished to hear.' Still, there are some
objective noises which cannot be easily accounted for in an
ordinary way, and the three almost independent visions of the
brown cross are important.

"I hope things will improve; in any case, you will have added
considerably to psychical research when all has been
recorded...."

It is difficult perhaps to see why Colonel Taylor should regard the
independent visions of the crucifix as of more value than the equally