THE WRONG BOX


BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
and
LLOYD OSBOURNE






Contents

PREFACE

CHAPTER I. In Which Morris Suspects
CHAPTER II. In Which Morris takes Action
CHAPTER III. The Lecturer at Large
CHAPTER IV. The Magistrate in the Luggage Van
CHAPTER V. Mr Gideon Forsyth and the Gigantic Box
CHAPTER VI. The Tribulations of Morris: Part the First
CHAPTER VII. In Which William Dent Pitman takes Legal Advice
CHAPTER VIII. In Which Michael Finsbury Enjoys a Holiday
CHAPTER IX. Glorious Conclusion of Michael Finsbury’s Holiday
CHAPTER X. Gideon Forsyth and the Broadwood Grand
CHAPTER XI. The Maestro Jimson
CHAPTER XII. Positively the Last Appearance of the Broadwood Grand
CHAPTER XIII.     The Tribulations of Morris: Part the Second
CHAPTER XIV. William Bent Pitman Hears of Something to his Advantage
CHAPTER XV. The Return of the Great Vance
CHAPTER XVI. Final Adjustment of the Leather Business






PREFACE

‘Nothing like a little judicious levity,’ says Michael Finsbury in the text: nor can any better excuse be found for the volume in the reader’s hand. The authors can but add that one of them is old enough to be ashamed of himself, and the other young enough to learn better.

R. L. S.   L. O.





CHAPTER I. In Which Morris Suspects

How very little does the amateur, dwelling at home at ease, comprehend the labours and perils of the author, and, when he smilingly skims the surface of a work of fiction, how little does he consider the hours of toil, consultation of authorities, researches in the Bodleian, correspondence with learned and illegible Germans—in one word, the vast scaffolding

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