THE MYSTERY OF MR. E. DROOD:
AN ADAPTATION.
BY ORPHEUS C. KERR.
CHAPTER XVI.
AVUNCULAR DEVOTIO
Having literally fallen asleep from his chair to the rug, J. BUMSTEAD, Esquire, was found to have reached such an extraordinary depth in slumber, that Mr. and Mrs. SMYTHE, his landlord and landlady, who were promptly called in by Mr. DIBBLE, had at first some fear that they should never be able to drag him out again. In pursuance, however, of a...
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