Count Bunker / Being a Bald Yet Veracious Chronicle Containing Some Further Particulars of Two Gentlemen Whose Previous Careers Were Touched Upon in a Tome Entitled "The Lunatic at Large"

by J. Storer Clouston

“No you won't!” said Ri.

And the Baron saw his retreat cut of by the athletic and determined young man.

“Before you leave, we have one or two questions to ask you,” said Mr. Maddison. “Are you Lord Tulliwuddle, or are you not?”

“Yes!—No!” replied the Baron.

“Which, sir?”

Expanding his chest, he made the awe-inspiring announcement—

“I am moch greater zan Tollyvoddle! I am ze Baron Rudolph von Blitzenberg!”

“Another darned lie!” commented Ri.

Mr. Maddison laughed sardonically; while Eleanor, with flashing eyes, now joined in the attack upon the hapless nobleman.

“You wretched creature! Isn't it enough to have shammed to be one peer without shamming to be another?”