This was soon accomplished, via
the sympathy and generosity of a pretty female visitor and the fortuitous
"borrow" of a doctor's fur coat — all of which got him to London.
There, at the fashionable and expensive Hotel Mayonaise, he met Baron Rudolf
von Blitzenberg.
It so happened that the young
baron was alone in London, and thus was easily talked into taking our
"lunatic" as guide, companion, etc.—with all expenses paid.
These amazing doings of this clever
and worldly-wise gentleman, including subsequent nonchalant changes of name,
scene, and history, provide most amusing reading.
This special edition of THE
LUNATIC AT LARGE by J. Storer Clouston has been made available to the Armed
Forces of the United States through an arrangement with the original publisher,
E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York
Editions for the Armed Services,
Inc., a non-profit organization established by the Council on Books in Wartime