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The Stobcross Riddle and the Gwendolen Bicycle Plot
An Irish-American narrator recounts the eccentric tale of Archfoald, the forty-third earl of Stobcross, his proud bearing, and his daughter Lady Gwendolen. A blacksmith’s son John A Biggs courts her via bicycles in a comic melodrama filled with meddling servants, a scheming registrar, and a faux saddle business that explodes into a transatlantic stock panic.
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Earl of Stobcross
England
British Isles
Theodore Hosk
Strand
London
House of Lords
Earl of Stobcrosa
Noah
Gart
Law Courts
Stobcross
Stoberoas
Brotheroas
Gwendolen
United States
Stobcross Castle
Stobcrosh Castle
Lanag
John A. Biggs
Padbury-Gosget
Brobcross Castle
Reginald Trevour
John A Biggs
Biggs
Earl
Peter Trevellick
Travellick
Old Arbor
Trevellick
Lady Gwendolen
Young Biggs
Market Cross
Puddlebury
Peter
Puddiebury
Beaston
Scradiington
Stobeross
Aril
Phomdalen
Hend
Kensiemen
Hid
Earl of
Wax Bond Jin
Gillooley
Inter
Patel
Directo
Marti
Gillopley
America
New York
Lord de Benture Barbarryhush
Lads Guendolen
Earl of Groross
Hig Jordshin
de Bentuce
Amelia
Klondike
John A Bigge
Menaca
Laceen
Anah Sprowle
Broheross
Ola Peter
Fool Ag
Tose
Robert Barr