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Edgar Jepson. The Admirable Tinker
The Admirable Tinker
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"Here's my father, or the police!" … . … Frontispiece
THE ADMIRABLE TINKER
CHAPTER ONE
SIR TANCRED'S QUEST
CHAPTER TWO
THE FINDING OF TINKER
CHAPTER THREE
TINKER ACCEPTS HIS NAME
[Illustration: He surveyed himself with an excited curiosity.]
CHAPTER FOUR
THE TRAINING OF TINKER
CHAPTER FIVE
TINKER'S BIRTHDAY BLOODHOUND
[Illustration: "I can't hold him!"]
CHAPTER SIX
THE RESCUE OF ELIZABETH KERNABY
[Illustration: He poured comforting assurances of safety into her ears.]
CHAPTER SEVEN
THE STOLEN FLYING-MACHINE
[Illustration: "She was quite out of control for a good five minutes!"]
CHAPTER EIGHT
THE BARON AND THE MONEY-LENDER
[Illustration: "To-night reflect on your misdeeds. To-morrow we will treat of your ransom."]
CHAPTER NINE
TINKER INTERVENES
[Illustration: The pursuit was lively, but short.]
CHAPTER TEN
TINKER'S FOUNDLING
[Illustration: It was his first essay as coiffeur.]
CHAPTER ELEVEN
TINKER FROM THE MACHINE
[Illustration: As a battering ram upon the first and second buttons. of his waistcoat.]
CHAPTER TWELVE
TINKER BORROWS A MOTOR-CAR
[Illustration: "Hold it back!" screamed Tinker.]
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
TINKER MEETS HIS OLD NURSE
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
TINKER TAKES SEPTIMUS RAINER IN HAND
[Illustration: Over these agreeable occupations they talked.]
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
TINKER ASSERTS THE RIGHTS OF THE EMPLOYER
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
TINKER DISOWNS HIS GRANDMOTHER
[Illustration: And she paused to let the splendour of the gift sink in.]
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
TINKER AND THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE
[Illustration: It's time these lubbers walked the plank.]
THE END
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Edgar Jepson
Child of the World
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"As you wrote? Yes; go on."
"And I did take care of him till Mr. Vane died. And oh, he was such a dear baby! Then, when the young lawyer came with Mrs. Bostock and told me as how you had arranged for her to have charge of him, and I had to give him over to her, it nearly broke my heart. But it isn't about myself I came to talk, but about him. I know it's troubling you, sir—and a gentleman has his pleasures, and they take up his time. But, after all, he's your own son, sir, and if you'd only come and see him for yourself, you wouldn't let him be treated like he is——"
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