to-night) that it was impossible to sleep in a room so noisy, he
induced him to allow him to share his room, that they heard
much, but they dared not show a light for fear of his admission
being discovered (the H----s being much on the alert), and they
saw nothing [_cf._ p. 40 for evidence of the H----s' butler].

We did not like to send for him on a Sunday, but decided to have
him in on Monday, and test him as to the intensity of the noise.

In the evening, while we were all chatting in the drawing-room,
Miss Moore came out into the hall, where she had been looking
after the dog. In spite of the noise we were all making, she
distinctly heard the clang noise upstairs. She had said the same
thing, though with less certainty, once before, and we agreed
that one night some one must sit up in the hall. (This was
afterwards done without result.)

_February 8th, Monday._--Last night my maid heard footsteps and
the sound of hands fumbling on her door; this she told us when
she came in with our early tea.

Miss Moore in the early morning, between one and two, heard
again the sharp, reverberating bang as before. We speculated at
breakfast as to whether the sound could have been made by the
men after we had gone upstairs, though they were all sure of
having been quite still before midnight. We made them rehearse
every sound they had in fact made, but nothing was in the least
like it, either in quality or quantity.

I had been disturbed about 5.30 A.M. by the sound (which we had