This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V. THE CAMBERWELL MYSTEBY. I rose and went to "answer" the door in a considerable disarray of composure. It struck me, first of all, with anxiety that a visitor should come so early in the morning (it was not later than eight o'clock), and it appeared to me especially odd that I should take ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V. THE CAMBERWELL MYSTEBY. I rose and went to "answer" the door in a considerable disarray of composure. It struck me, first of all, with anxiety that a visitor should come so early in the morning (it was not later than eight o'clock), and it appeared to me especially odd that I should take upon me to represent a house in which I had been for only a few hours, and of which I knew nothing. I opened the door, and saw a brisk-looking, close-shaven person. "Mr. Halliday, I believe?" said he. His straight look and his smile made my heart sink; they too intimately reminded me of the pleasant gentlemen who had sometimes presented themselves at the door of my college rooms to request the immediate payment of a bill. While wondering how on earth I had been found out at the lonely Wytches, I could not refuse to acknowledge my name. "les," said I; "I am called Halliday." "Could you faror me with a few minutes' private conversation?" said he, again impressing on me his straight look and his smile. "May I know your name?" I asked. "Bygrove," said he. I thought I had heard the name before, though I could not recall any Bygrove among my own or my father's creditors; I considered, however, that perhaps he was the kind of person that serves a summons. "Really, I don't know," said I. "I arrived here only last night" "I know that, Mr. Halliday," said he, with a smile. He knew that! "and I have hardly any right," continued I, "to ask a stranger into this house. Do you mind saying what you have to say out here on the gravel?" "Well," said he, smiling again, "the publicity of the gravel hardly suits me. I think, Mr. Halliday, you might venture to ask me in, even though Sir Ralph is not at home." He knew that, too! I made no further objection, and led...
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