faircastle's

Updated: May 12, 2025

And this very detestation it was which brought matters to a curious climax. One winter's night, just as he was rising from his lonely dinner, a groom came riding down from Squire Faircastle's, the richest man in the district, to say that his daughter had scalded her hand, and that medical help was needed on the instant.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Round the Red Lamp