CONTENTS
| PROLOGUE | ||
| PAGE | ||
| Part I | A Book of Poems Arrives for Dr. Morton Sims | [3] |
| Part II | The Murderer | [14] |
| BOOK ONE | ||
| LOTHIAN IN LONDON | ||
| CHAPTER | ||
| I | Under the Waggon-roof. A Dinner in Bryanstone Square | [37] |
| II | Gravely Unfortunate Occurrence in Mrs.Amberley's Drawing Room | [58] |
| III | Shame in "the Roaring Gallant Town" | [76] |
| IV | Lothian Goes to the Library of Pure Literature | [103] |
| V | "For the First Time, He was Going toHave a Girl Friend" | [121] |
| BOOK TWO | ||
| LOTHIAN IN NORFOLK | ||
| I | Vignette of Early Morning. "Gilbert is ComingHome!" | [145] |
| II | An Exhibition of Doctor Morton Simsand Doctor Medley, with an Account of How Lothian Returned to MortlandRoyal | [165] |
| III | Psychology of the Inebriate, and theLetter of Jewelled Words | [204] |
| IV | Dickson Ingworth Under the Microscope | [237] |
| V | A Quarrel in the "Most Select Lounge in the County" | [246] |
| VI | An Omnes Exeunt from Mortland Royal | [269] |
| BOOK THREE | ||
| FRUIT OF THE DEAD SEA | ||
| I | The Girls in the Fourth Story Flat | [283] |
| II | Over the Rubicon | [295] |
| III | Thirst | [318] |
| IV | The Chamber of Horrors | [330] |
| V | The Night Journey from Nice WhenMrs. Daly Speaks Words of Fire | [353] |
| VI | Gilbert Lothian's Diary | [367] |
| VII | Ingworth Redux: Toftrees Complacens | [394] |
| VIII | The Amnesic Dream-phase | [409] |
| IX | A Startling Experience for "Wog" | [436] |
| EPILOGUE | ||
| A YEAR LATER | ||
| What Occurred at the Edward Hall in Kingsway | [453] | |
PROLOGUE
PART I
A BOOK OF POEMS ARRIVES FOR DR. MORTON SIMS
"How many bards gild the lapses of time
A few of them have ever been the food