CHAPTER VI

MY FIRST EXPERIENCES IN PRACTICE

A Strange Character--His Honeymoon--His Bristol Practice--Telegram from Plymouth--Six Amusing Weeks--A Deep Plot--My Southsea Venture--Furnishing on the Cheap--The Plot Explodes.

I have now come to the temporary end of my voyages, which were to be renewed in years to come, and I have reached the time when, under very curious circumstances, I endeavoured to establish myself in medical practice. In a book written some years afterwards called “The Stark Munro Letters,” I drew in very close detail the events of the next few years, and there the curious reader will find them more clearly and fully set out than would be to scale in these pages. I would only remark, should any reader reconstruct me or my career from that book, that there are some few incidents there which are imaginary, and that, especially, the whole incident of the case of a lunatic and of Lord Saltire in