"Last night I had just got into bed, when I heard footsteps, so,
always on the alert for phenomena, I listened and was relieved
(? disappointed would be better!) to hear Mr. ---- cough, so I
settled down to sleep. A quarter of an hour or twenty minutes
later (about twelve o'clock) I again heard steps, but this time
they came from the back-stair and shuffled past my room, and
then I heard a loud fall against what seemed to me the door of
room No. 1, which is practically next door to mine.[E]
"I went to listen, but not a sound was to be heard, and I saw no
one. It could not have been the gentleman who was occupying that
room [Mr. W----], as I heard him (with others) come up a quarter
of an hour later and go into his room. Although the fall seemed
_against_ the door of No. 1, I must add that the depth and
quality of the noise was as if a large body had fallen far away,
of which we only, as it were, heard the echo, but that _quite
distinctly on_ the door of No. 1."
[Miss Langton testifies to being disturbed by the same sounds in
No. 2, the dressing-room between Miss "Duff's" room and Mr.
W----'s.]