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THE MYSTERY OF MR. E. DROOD.

An adaptation.

BY ORFHEUS C. KERR

CHAPTER XIX.

The H. And H. Of J. Bumstead.

The exquisitely sweet month of the perfectly delicious summer-vacation having come, Miss CAROWTHERS’ Young Ladies have returned again, for a time, to their respective homes, Magnolia pendragon has gone to the city and her brother, and Flora Potts is ridiculously and absurdly alone.

Under the ardent sun of August, Bumsteadville slowly bakes, like an ogre’s family-dish of stuffed cottages and greens, with here and there some slowly moving object, like a loose vegetable on a sluggish current of tidal gravy, and the spire of the Ritualistic church shooting-up at one end like an incorrigibly perpendicular leg of magnified mutton.