Explore "The Mystery of Cloomber" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
There was, as may well be imagined, much stir amongst our small / community at the news that the Hall was to be inhabited once more, and / considerable speculation as to the new tenants, and their object in / choosing this particular part of the country for their residence.
It speedily became apparent that, whatever their motives might be, they / had definitely determined upon a lengthy stay, for relays of plumbers / and of joiners came down from Wigtown, and there was hammering and / repairing going on from morning till night.