Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

"'And you won't tell me what you want it for?'

"'Someday, perhaps, but not just at present, Jack.'

So I had to be content with that, though it was the first time that there had ever been any secret between us.

I gave her a cheque, and never thought any more of the matter.'

It may have nothing to do with what came afterwards, but I thought it only right to mention it.

"'Well, I told you just now that there is a cottage not far from our house.

There is just a field between us, but to reach it you have to go along the road and then turn down a lane.

Just beyond it is a nice little grove of Scotch firs, and I used to be very fond of strolling down there, for trees are always a neighbourly kind of thing.'

The cottage had been standing empty this eight months, and it was a pity, for it was a pretty two-storied place, with an old-fashioned porch and honeysuckle about it.

I have stood many a time and thought what a neat little homestead it would make.

Well, last Monday evening I was taking a stroll down that way when I met an empty van coming up the lane and saw a pile of carpets and things lying about on the grass plot beside the porch.

It was clear that the cottage had at last been let,

I walked past it, and wondered what sort of folk they were who had come to live so near us, and as I looked I suddenly became aware that a face was watching me out of one of the upper windows.

I don't know what there was about that face, Mr. Holmes, but it seemed to send a chill right down my back.

I was some little way off, so that I could not make out the features, but there was something unnatural and inhuman about the face.

That was the impression that I had

and I moved quickly forwards to get a nearer view of the person who was watching me.

But as I did so, the face suddenly disappeared—so suddenly that it seemed to have been plucked away into the darkness of the room.

I stood for five minutes, thinking the business over, and trying to analyse my impressions.

I could not tell if the face were that of a man or a woman—it had been too far from me for that—but its colour was what had impressed me most."

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