INTRODUCTION
THE STORY
Dramatis Personæ
Opening of the Tale
Sapsea and Durdles
The Landlesses
Mr. Grewgious
The Unaccountable Expedition
Purpose of the Expedition
Christmas Eve
After the Disappearance
Dick Datchery
Jasper, Rosa, and Tartar
Jasper’s Opium Visions
Datchery and the Opium Woman
Datchery’s Score
THEORIES OF THE MYSTERY
Forster’s Evidence
“ A New Idea ”
Mr. Proctor’s Theory
A Mistaken Theory
Another Way
Dickens’s Unused Draft of a Chapter
A Question of Taste
Mr. Proctor’s Theory Continued
Mr. Cuming Walters’s Theory
Evidence of Collins’s Drawings
Mr. Walters’s Theory Continued
Who was the Princess Puffer ?
Who was Jasper ?
CONCLUSION
