“AN’ WHICH IS THE HONOURABLE JINTLEMAN AS DO BE
BURRNIN’ TO PRISINT ME WID A BIT O’ GOOLD?”
ADVENTURES
THIRD SERIES
by
ARTHUR MORRISON
ILLUSTRATED BY T.S.C. CROWTHER
LONDON
WARD, LOCK & CO., LIMITED
WARWICK HOUSE, SALISBURY SQUARE, E.C.
NEW YORK AND MELBOURNE
1896
CONTENTS
The Case of the “Flitterbat Lancers”
The Case of Mr. Geldard’s Elopement
The Case of the late Mr. Rewse
The Affair of Mrs. Seton’s Child
The Case of the Ward Lane Tabernacle
THE CASE OF THE “FLITTERBAT LANCERS”
I
IN none of the cases of investigation by Martin Hewitt which I haveas yet recorded had I any direct and substantial personal interest.In the case I am about to set forth, however, I had some suchinterest, though legally, I fear, it amounted to no more than thecost of a smashed pane of glass. But the case in some ways was one ofthe most curious which came under my notice, and completely justifiedHewitt’s oft repeated dictum that there was nothing, however romanticor apparently improbable, that had not happened at some time inLondon.
It was late on a summer evening, two or three years back, that Idrowsed in my armchair over a particularly solid and ponderous volumeof essays on social economy. I was doing a good deal of reviewing atthe time, and I remember that this particular vo