The Slowcoach

by E. V. Lucas

THE SLOWCOACH

BY

E. V. LUCAS.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1: [THE AVORIES]
CHAPTER 2: [THE SOUND OF MYSTERIOUS WHEELS]
CHAPTER 3: [THE THOROUGH EXAMINATION]
CHAPTER 4: [THE ITEMS]
CHAPTER 5: [DIOGENES AND MOSES]
CHAPTER 6: [THE PLANS]
CHAPTER 7: [MR. LENOX'S YOUNG BROTHER]
CHAPTER 8: [THE FIRST DAY]
CHAPTER 9: [THE FIRST NIGHT]
CHAPTER 10: [THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND CARAVAN]
CHAPTER 11: [THE WAYSIDE FRIEND]
CHAPTER 12: [STRATFORD-ON-AVON]
CHAPTER 13: [THE ADVENTURE OF THE YOUNG POLICEMAN]
CHAPTER 14: [THE ADVENTURE OF THE LITTLE OLD LADY]
CHAPTER 15: [THE ADVENTURE OF THE RUNAWAY PONIES]
CHAPTER 16: [THE BLACK SPANIELS]
CHAPTER 17: [THE ADVENTURE OF THE LOST BABY]
CHAPTER 18: [THE ADVENTURE OF THE OLD IRISHWOMAN]
CHAPTER 19: [THE LETTER TO X]
CHAPTER 20: [THE ADVENTURE OF THE LINE OF POETRY]
CHAPTER 21: [COLLINS'S PEOPLE]
CHAPTER 22: [THE ADVENTURE OF THE GIANT]
CHAPTER 23: [THE MOST SURPRISING ADVENTURE OF ALL]
CHAPTER 24: [THE END]

CHAPTER 1

THE AVORIES

Once upon a time there was a nice family. Its name was Avory, and it lived in an old house in Chiswick, where the Thames is so sad on grey days and so gay on sunny ones.

Mr.—or rather Captain—Avory was dead; he had been wounded at Spion Kop, and died a few years after. Mrs. Avory was thirty-five, and she had four children. The eldest was Janet, aged fourteen, and the youngest was Gregory Bruce, aged seven. Between these came Robert Oliver, who was thirteen, and Hester, who was nine.