A short ghost story published in the North Star and Farmers Chronicle in November of 1899.
The grandfather of the present laird (of Cromarty) was Hugh Rose, who married the heiress of the Munroes of Culcairn and Rosses of Pitkerie and... had to assume the surname of Ross. Rose was the son of a clergyman at Tain; he amassed an enormous fortune in the West Indies (using slaves) and spent most of it in litigation. He, however, purchased many estates in his native county, but because of his wealth and progressive nature, he was far from popular, and being quick to take offence, he had many "affairs." (duels)
Before his death, he was engaged in a bitter lawsuit and died amid his legal papers. After his death, no one, for a time, would venture near his room, for bundles of legal papers were being tossed about the room in all directions by an invisible hand. Many credible witnesses declared that the papers were thrown about as if by an angry man, furious at having mislaid something, and it afterwards transpired that an important deed on which Rose relied could not be found.