_SIGHTS AND NOISES_ There is not an old house in England of which the servants and young people who live in it do not cherish some traditions of the ghostly.

Knowl has its shadows, noises, and marvellous records.

Rachel Ruthyn, the beauty of Queen Anne's time, who died of grief for the handsome Colonel Norbrooke, who was killed in the Low Countries, walks the house by night, in crisp and sounding silks.

She is not seen, only heard.

The tapping of her high-heeled shoes, the sweep and rustle of her brocades, her sighs as she pauses in the galleries, near the bed-room doors; and sometimes, on stormy nights, her sobs.
There is, beside, the 'link-man', a lank, dark-faced, black-haired man, in a sable suit, with a link or torch in his hand.