They preceded him to put the place in order, and before his arrival came to me in some irritation complaining that I had let them _a haunted house_! They insisted that there were strange noises, as if heavy weights were being dragged about, or heavy footsteps pacing in the rooms and on the stairs.

I said that I knew nothing about the matter.

The stairs are of stone, water is only carried up to the first floor, there is an unused system of hot air pipes.

{177a} Something went wrong with the water-main in the area once, but the noises lasted after it was mended.
"I think Mr.Buckley when he arrived never heard anything unusual.
But one evening as he walked upstairs carrying an ink-bottle, he found his hand full of some liquid.

Thinking that he had spilt the ink, he went to a window where he found his hand full of water, to account for which there was no stain on the ceiling, or anything else that he could discover.