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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 FOOTNOTES |