GASKELL'S NOTE I have read what Miss Maltravers has written, and have but little to add to it.

I can give no explanation that will tally with all the facts or meet all the difficulties involved in her narrative.

The most obvious solution of some points would be, of course, to suppose that Sir John Maltravers was insane.

But to anyone who knew him as intimately as I did, such an hypothesis is untenable; nor, if admitted, would it explain some of the strangest incidents.

Moreover, it was strongly negatived by Dr.Frobisher, from whose verdict in such matters there was at the time no appeal, by Dr.Dobie, and by Dr.Bruton, who had known Sir John from his infancy.