natural cause.  No hounds or horseman had been in the park.  The mansion was closed, Lord Doneraile being away, and no one had the right of entering the grounds within the park walls.  He heard later that there was a story in the neighbourhood about ‘the ghost’ of a former Lord Doneraile ‘haunting’ the park—­and possibly the spectral horseman was he.  I questioned the man and his son closely about it, and am convinced they were not deceived by hallucination, and that their account is perfectly true.”

To this account Mr. Span adds this note:—­

“The apparition of hounds and huntsman was witnessed on an estate belonging to Lord Doneraile, in the South of Ireland (Doneraile Park); the man who told me the incident was coachman in the service of my cousin, near Limerick.  His young son confirmed his father’s account, as he also saw it.

          “Yours faithfully,

“REGINALD B. SPAN.”

To throw additional light on the matter Mr. Ralph Shirley, editor of the Occult Review, published the following letter, written to him by Lord Doneraile:—­

“DEAR SHIRLEY,

“It is rather a curious thing that neither Lady Castletown nor Lady Doneraile has ever heard of the story of the moonlight vision of Lord Doneraile and the pack of hounds.  However, there is a man at Doneraile called Jones, a chemist, who is a most enthusiastic antiquarian and a dabbler in the occult sciences, and he takes the greatest interest in all that concerns the St. Legers.  Lady Castletown wrote to him, and the reply comes from his brother (I suppose he is away), and that I send you.

“Lady Doneraile says it must refer to the third Lord Doneraile of the first creation, who was killed in a duel afterwards; and there appear to be a lot of stories which Jones has ferreted out or been told.  Of course, I don’t know how far you could say Jones was authentic.  All I can say is that he believes the things himself.

          “Yours sincerely,

“DONERAILE.”

“Dec. 27, 1905.”

“I should explain,” adds Mr. Shirley, “that Lady Castletown is daughter to the late Lord Doneraile, and present owner of Doneraile House.  Here follows the enclosure, i.e. the extract made by Walter A. Jones, Doneraile, from his MS. notes on the Legends of Peasantry in connection with Doneraile branch of the St. Leger family.  Dated December 21, 1905.

“I have heard,” so it runs, “the following story respecting the Lord Doneraile, who pursues the chase from Ballydineen through Gloun-na-goth Wilkinson’s Lawn, through Byblox, across the ford of Shanagh aha Keel-ahboobleen into Waskin’s Glen into the old Deer Park at Old Court, thence into the Horse Close, and from thence into the park.  He appears to take particular delight in Wilkinson’s Lawn according to tradition, for it was there that the noble stag was lost sight of, and of course it was there he was most searched for.  It was only