we are at all events _next_ to No. 8, which has an evil
reputation.

It is the room in which Sarah N---- died, and in which Miss H----
heard the limping footsteps walking round her bed.

As we had been told that the avenue is shunned by the whole
neighbourhood after dark, we went out for a stroll up and 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