So, as she would stay on at Mr.
Buckley's, I suggested that an electric alarm communicating with Miss Buckley's room should be rigged up, and this was done." Here the doctor paused, and as the events had happened within the week, we felt that we were at last on the track of a recent ghost.
"Next morning, about one, the Buckleys were aroused by a tremendous peal of the alarm; Mrs.Claughton they found in a faint.

Next morning {179} she consulted me as to the whereabouts of a certain place, let me call it 'Meresby'.

I suggested the use of a postal directory; we found Meresby, a place extremely unknown to fame, in an agricultural district about five hours from London in the opposite direction from Rapingham.

To this place Mrs.Claughton said she must go, in the interest and by the order of certain ghosts, whom she saw on Monday night, and whose injunctions she had taken down in a note-book.

She has left Rapingham for London, and there," said the doctor, "my story ends for the present." We expected it to end for good and all, but in the course of the week came a communication to the doctor in writing from Mrs.Claughton's governess.