Children's Fiction
In the midst of the great wilderness--we might almost say the wilds--of that comparatively unknown region which lies on the Surrey side of the Thames, just above London Bridge, there sauntered one fine day a big bronzed seaman of middle age. He turned into an alley, down which...
In the midst of the great wilderness--we might almost say the wilds--of that comparatively unknown region which lies on the Surrey side of the Thames, just above London Bridge,...
2. Chapter 2Beauty and ugliness form a contrast which is presented to us every day of our lives, though, perhaps, we may not be much impressed by the fact. And this contrast is presented in...
3. Chapter 3"Mither," said he one evening, striding into his father's dwelling--a simple cottage on a moor--and sitting down in front of a bright old woman in a black dress, whose head was...
4. Chapter 4The man who had been thus captured by David was one of those wretched forlorn creatures who seem to reach a lower depth of wretchedness and degradation in London than in any oth...
5. Chapter 5Our adventurous Scot had often read and heard that some of the low quarters of London were dangerous for respectable men to enter without the escort of the police, but his natur...
6. Chapter 6It seemed as if the man were leading his companion into deeper and deeper depths, for the dark passage into which they finally turned, and along which they groped their way, see...
7. Chapter 7On the morning after his first day in London our hero's mind had to grapple with the perplexing question, whether it was possible that a man with a jovial face, a hearty manner,...
8. Chapter 8"Ay, sir, an' I've seen _you_ before," returned the latter with an extremely simple look. "I saw ye whan I was comin' oot o' the hoose o' Mr Speevin, whar I'm lodgin'."
9. Chapter 9In his remarkably eager and somewhat eccentric pursuit of pleasure--that pursuit which is so universal yet so diverse among men, to say nothing about boys--Tommy Splint used to...
10. Chapter 10For a considerable time the boy prowled about the house of Mr Spivin in the hope of seeing David Laidlaw go out or in; but our Scot did not appear. At last a servant-girl came t...
11. Chapter 11And it may be remarked here that Mr Dean had what Martha afterwards styled "a way with him" that was quite irresistible, insomuch that she was led, somehow, to speak of things s...
12. Chapter 12His freedom was the result of Mr Dean's labours, for with the information which he had ferreted out that sedate individual found no difficulty in proving the innocence of our Sc...
13. Chapter 13How that wonderful man Detective Dean managed it all is best known to himself and those myrmidons of the law who aided and abetted him in his investigations, but certain it is t...