Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Sherlock Holmes Short Stories · The Yelllow Face - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · 1 Aug 2026 podcast

It was of a livid, chalky white, and with something set and rigid about it, which was shockingly unnatural.

So disturbed was I that I determined to see a little more of the new inmates of the cottage.

I approached and knocked at the door, which was instantly opened by a tall, gaunt woman with a harsh, forbidding face.

"'What may you be wanting?'

she asked in a northern accent."

"'I am your neighbour over yonder,' said I, nodding towards my house.

"'I see that you have only just moved in, so I thought that if I could be of any help to you in any—' "'Aye, we'll just ask you when we want you,' said she, and shut the door in my face.

Annoyed at the churlish rebuff, I turned my back and walked home.

All evening, though, I tried to think of other things.

My mind would still turn to the apparition at the window, and the rudeness of the woman.'

I determined to say nothing about the former to my wife, for she is a nervous, highly strung woman, and I had no wish that she should share the unpleasant impression which had been produced upon myself.

I remarked to her, however, before I fell asleep, that the cottage was now occupied, to which she returned no reply.

I am usually an extremely sound sleeper.

It has been a standing jest in the family that nothing could ever wake me during the night.'

and yet somehow, on that particular night, whether it may have been the slight excitement produced by my little adventure or not, I know not, but I slept much more lightly than usual.

Half in my dreams I was dimly conscious that something was going on in the room, and gradually became aware that my wife had dressed herself and was slipping on her mantle and her bonnet.

My lips were parted to murmur out some sleepy words of surprise or remonstrance at this untimely preparation,

glancing furtively towards the bed as she fastened her mantle to see if she had disturbed me.

Then, thinking that I was still asleep, she slipped noiselessly from the room, and an instant later I heard a sharp creaking which could only come from the hinges of the front door.

I sat up in bed and wrapped my knuckles against the rail to make certain that I was truly awake.

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