I know that _he_ doesn't believe in ghosts; and he keeps all his garden-seeds in the locked room at the end of the passage; so he must go there sometimes himself." "O yes, mum; I know that master goes there.

I've seen him go that way at night with a candle." "Well, you silly girl, he wouldn't use the room if he thought it was haunted, would he?
There are plenty more empty rooms in the house." "I don't know about that, I'm sure, mum; but anyhow I know Sarah Batts told me that passage was haunted.

'Don't you never go there, Martha,' she says, 'unless you want to have your blood froze.

I've heard things there that have froze mine.' And I never should go, mum, if it wasn't for moth--Mrs.Tadman's worrying and driving, about the place being cleaned once in a way.

And Sarah Batts is right, mum, however she may have got to know it; for I have heard things." "What things ?" "Moaning and groaning like, as if it was some one in pain; but all very low; and I never could make out where it came from.