"From Miss Loach's cook. A woman called Pill. The cook
asserted that the house was haunted, and described the noises
and the lights. I don't believe in spooks myself, and thought
some tricks were being played, so one day I went down and had
a look."

"That day I was there?" asked Jennings, recalling Cuthbert's
presence.

"Before that--a week or two. I saw nothing. The house is
rotting and nothing appeared to be disturbed. I examined the
park and found no footmarks. In fact, there wasn't a sign of
anyone about."

"You should have gone at night when the ghost was larking."

"That's what Caranby said. I told him when he came back to
London. He was very annoyed. You know his romance about that
house--an absurd thing it is. All the same, Caranby is
tender on the point. I advised him to pull the house down and
let the land out for building leases. He thought he would,
but asked me to go at night and stir up the ghost. I went on
the night of the murder, and got into the grounds by climbing
the wall. There's no gate, you know."

"At what time?"

"Some time between ten and eleven. I'm not quite sure."