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But if any reader will kindly tell liim the 

 alternative that presents itself to his or her 

 mental vision, the author will be only too glad 

 to cry ' Capevi,' as dear old Jorrocks says. As 

 everybody who has ever had to apply his mus- 

 cular Christianity in a similar way is aware, it 

 is absolutely necessary to hit hard, and that at 

 once, in a case of the sort under notice. The 

 East Ender, at no time a gentleman of much 

 blandishment, is on an occasion of this sort 

 a perfect demon, and nothing but an appeal 

 to his better , nature in the shape of a real 

 good hiding can possibly be successful. Had 

 Reginald Miller and his friends, ' who hap- 

 pened to be a particularly good lot,' been duffers, 

 goodness knows whether the coach would not 

 have been at Cheam at this moment. Certain 

 it is that the very smallest sign of hesitation 

 would have literally upset the apple-cart, and 

 therefore the author is convinced that this 

 was an occasion where the circumstances altered 

 the case ; and as all is well that ends well, and 

 nothing succeeds like success, and the winning 



