It need only be added that in about a month’s time Georgiana returned to Caversham as Mrs Batherbolt, and that she resided there with her husband in much connubial bliss for the next six months.  At the end of that time they removed to a small living, for the purchase of which Mr Longestaffe had managed to raise the necessary money.

CHAPTER XCVI — WHERE ‘THE WILD ASSES QUENCH THEIR THIRST’

We must now go back a little in our story,—­about three weeks,—­in order that the reader may be told how affairs were progressing at the Beargarden.  That establishment had received a terrible blow in the defection of Herr Vossner.  It was not only that he had robbed the club, and robbed every member of the club who had ventured to have personal dealings with...