Mrs.
Gwynne at the same moment seized my arm, _and the light was extinguished_! Notwithstanding, I distinctly saw the figure returning towards the door, and being under the impression that one of the servants had found her way into our room, I leaped out of bed to intercept the intruder, but found and saw nothing.

I rushed to the door and endeavoured to follow the supposed intruder, and it was not until I found the door locked, as usual, that I was painfully impressed.

I need hardly say that Mrs.Gwynne was in a very nervous state.

She asked me what I had seen, and I told her.

She had seen the same figure," "but," writes Mrs.Gwynne, "I distinctly _saw the hand of the figure placed over the night-light, which was at once extinguished_".