The Green Eyes of the Little Birmingham God 192 192 X. The Girl He Left Behind Him The Girl He Left Behind Him 215 215 p. 1EPISODE I “STRICTLY BUSINESS” p. 1 In at least three inns, the landlords, on hearing the news, spoke words of grave warning to their assistants. More than one inexperienced tradesman, foolishly finding satisfaction in the tidings, began to rummage eagerly among old accounts. In the local police-station, the inspector instructed his subordinates to stand no nonsense. And the harbour-master removed his rabbits from outside his kitchen door to an apartment at the top of the house. The “Jane Gladys,” after long absence, was back again in her home port. Doomed to pleasant disappointment, however, were such good folks of Shorehaven as anticipated any spectacular ill-conduct that evening on the part of the returned crew. Before the rope fender of the despicable “Jane Gladys” had rubbed the sides of the quay for five minutes, an atmosphere of heavy gloom had settled upon the hardy mariners who peopled her, and this though they had arrived in port in the best of spirits, and were, moreover, furnished with several p. 2half-formulated plans of campaign which only awaited the inspiration of environment to touch success in the form of financial or liquid bonuses. p. 2 For the harbour-master, ever ready to placate the “Jane Gladys,” was
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