Sinopsis

That evening the down train from London deposited at the little country
station of Ramsdon but a single enger, a man of middle height,
shabbily dressed, with broad shoulders and long arms and a most unusual
breadth and depth of chest.
Of his face one could see little, for it was covered by a thick growth of dark
curly hair, beard, moustache and whiskers, all overgrown and ill-tended,
and as he came with a somewhat slow and ungainly walk along the
platform, the lad stationed at the gate to collect tickets grinned amusedly
and called to one of the porters near:
"Look at this, Bill; here's the monkey-man escaped and come back along of
us."
It was a reference to a travelling ci...