A Lost Name Author:Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. MORITURUS. Neither spoke for a while. At length, raising his candle a little, so as to disclose those odd confronting portraits more sharply, ... more »Sir Eoke said, with a pallid grimace which sarcastically travestied a smile: " I've been obliged to you, sir, I think, more than once for this kind of attention ?" " Very likely, very certainly" said Sherlock, just above his breath. " It must be that you lock your door." " Pray, sir, do you want anything in my room ?" repeated Sir Eoke, in the same constrained tone, and with the same angry smirk. " No, sir, no. I've no business, certainly. It's a happy thing, sir, you wakened me," said Sherlock, looking full at him as before, andwith a sort of shudder he went back another step. " Then you've been walking in your sleep, sir, I suppose ?" said Sir Roke, intent on mentioning the case to his host, with whom he felt very angry for having such a person in his house. " Walking in my sleep, sir ? Oh, no ! that's double life; no, never, sir. Lock your door. I hope you will—do, sir—double lock and bolt." " Your advice, sir, is immensely obliging," said the baronet, with the same sneer, but somehow fascinated by the sublime impudence and unintelligibility of his visitor, and unable to break away at the moment. " No, don't fail; every man changes his theories from time to time, and looking among the ancients, I think the Sadducees were wrong, aud there is some place like hell " " And I should say a likely way to settle one's mind upon that question would be going about to people's bedrooms at this hour of night, and getting yourself mistaken for a robber. Pray, sir, don't come here any more. Good night." And so saying, with a burst of anger at himself for having played the fool for so long, he shirt the d...« less