Jimmy’s Adventures
Our chronicle must here split into three separate and distinct portions.
The night was to prove an eventful one and each of the three persons involved saw it from his or her own individual angle.
We will begin with that pleasant and engaging youth, Mr. Jimmy Thesiger, at a moment when he has at last exchanged final good nights with his fellow conspirator, Bill Eversleigh.
“Don’t forget,” said Bill, “three a.m. If you’re still alive, that is,” he added kindly.
“I may be an ass,” said Jimmy, with rancorous remembrance of the remark Bundle had repeated to him, “but I’m not nearly so much of an ass as I look.”