![]() ![]() ![]() The weather made me liverish, the talk of the ordinary Englishman made me sick, I couldn’t get enough exercise, and the amusements of London seemed as flat as soda- water that has been standing in the sun. If anyone had told me a year ago that I would have been feeling like that I should have laughed at him but there was the fact. I had been three months in the Old Country, and was fed up with it. I returned from the City about three o’clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life. The Adventure of the Bald Archaeologist 7. The Adventure of the Spectacled Roadman 6. The Adventure of the Radical Candidate 5. ![]() The Adventure of the Literary Innkeeper 4. This little volume is the result, and I should like to put your name on it in memory of our long friendship, in the days when the wildest fictions are so much less improbable than the facts.Ģ. During an illness last winter I exhausted my store of those aids to cheerfulness, and was driven to write one for myself. You and I have long cherished an affection for that elemental type of tale which Americans call the ‘dime novel’ and which we know as the ‘shocker’–the romance where the incidents defy the probabilities, and march just inside the borders of the possible. ![]()
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