Mr.
Rolfe, still searching for a physical explanation, went
to Mr. Hesketh, the Municipal Electrician of
Folkestone, a man of high education and intelligence,
who went out to the scene of the affair and saw enough
to convince himself that the phenomena were perfectly
genuine and inexplicable by ordinary laws. A Canadian
soldier who was billeted upon Mr. Rolfe, heard an
account of the happenings from his host, and after
announcing his conviction that the latter had "bats in
his belfry" proceeded to the dugout, where his
experiences were so instant and so violent that he
rushed out of the place in horror. The housekeeper at
the Hall also was a witness of the movement of bricks
when no human hands touched them. Mr. Jaques, whose
incredulity had gradually thawed before all this
evidence, went down to the dugout in the absence of
everyone, and was departing from it when five stones
rapped up against the door from the inside. He
reopened the door and saw them lying there upon the
floor. Sir William Barrett had meanwhile come down,
but had seen nothing. His stay was a short one.
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