Lord Dunsany - Two Bottles of Relish - The Little Tales of Smethers and Other Stories

He wouldn’t tell me. ‘There are tales,’ he said, ‘that one never wants to hear.’

That’s true enough. I wish I’d never heard this one. I never did actually. But I guessed it from Linley’s last words to Inspector Ulton, the only ones that I overheard. And perhaps this is the point at which to stop reading my story, so that you don’t guess it too; even if you think you want murder stories. For don’t you rather want a murder story with a bit of a romantic twist, and not a story about real foul murder? Well, just as you like.

In came Inspector Ulton, and Linley shook hands in silence, and pointed the way to his bedroom; and they went in there and talked in low voices, and I never heard a word.

A fairly hearty-looking man was the inspector when they went into that room.

They walked through our sitting-room in silence when they came out, and together they went into the hall, and there I heard the only words they said to each other. It was the inspector that first broke that silence.

‘But why,’ he said, ‘did he cut down the trees?’

‘Solely,’ said Linley, ‘in order to get an appetite.’

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