Philadelphia for permission to reprint the ditty included in
Chapter VI. 

The public will forgive this being only a brief preface, for at
the moment of writing the time is short.  Wishing you a Merry
Abstinence, and looking forward to meeting you some day in Europe, 

CHRISTOPHER MORLEY, BART HALEY. 

Philadelphia, Ten minutes before Midnight, June 30, 1919. 

TABLE OF CONTENTS 

I.  MYSTERY OF THE UNEXPECTED JULEP
II.  THE HOUSE ON CARAWAY STREET
III.  INCIDENT OF THE GOOSEBERRY BOMBS
IV.  THE GREAT WAR BEGINS
V.  THE TREACHERY OF MISS CHUFF
VI.  DEPARTED SPIRITS
VII.  THE DECANTERBURY PILGRIMS