PROJECT ASHABI
African Stories. Limitless Worlds.
PROJECT ASHABI
African Stories. Limitless Worlds.
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1. MISS BLAKE--FROM MEMORY 2. THE CORONER'S INQUEST 3. OUR LAST TENANT 4. MYSELF AND MISS BLAKE 5. THE TRIAL 6. WE AGREE TO COMPROMISE 7. MY OWN STORY 8. MY FIRST NIGHT AT RIVER HALL 9. A TEMPORARY PEACE 10. THE WATCHER IS WATCHED 11. MISS BLAKE ONCE MORE 12. HELP 13. LIGHT AT LAST 14. A TERRIBLE INTERVIEW 15. CONCLUSION
If ever a residence, "suitable in every respect for a family of position," haunted a lawyer's offices, the "Uninhabited House," about which I have a story to tell, haunted those of Messrs. Craven and Son, No. 200, Buckingham Street, Strand.
It did not matter in the least whether it happened to be let or unlet: in either case, it never allowed Mr. Craven or his clerks, of whom I was one, to forget its existence.
When let, we were in perpetual hot water with the tenant; when unlet, we had to endeavour to find some tenant to take that unlucky house.
Happy were we when we could get an agreement signed for a couple of years--although we always had misgivings that the war waged with the last occupant would probably have to be renewed with his successor.
Still, when we were able to let the desirable residence to a solvent individual, even for twelve months, Mr. Craven rejoiced.
He knew how to proceed with the tenants who came blustering, or threatening, or complaining, or bemoaning; but he did not know what to do with Miss Blake and her letters, when no person was liable for the rent.
Arthur Conan Doyle
