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List of Illustrations Family tree 

Part One
Taking In

1 Two Irish Families 2 Early Years in Edinburgh 1859-1868 3 Stonyhurst and Feldkirch 1868-1876 4 Edinburgh University 1876-1881 5 On the Road -- Ireland, West Africa and Plymouth 1881-1882 6 Bush Villas, Portsmouth 1882-1883 7 Marriage and A Study in Scarlet 1884-1886 8 Discovery of Spiritualism 1887-1888 9 Birth of a Daughter 1889-1890 

Part Two
Cargo Stored

10 Vienna and London 1891-1892 11 Tennison Road, South Norwood 1892 12 Swiss Interlude 1893-1894 13 America, Egypt and Undershaw 1894-1897 14 Jean Leckie 1897 15 Boer War and Aftermath 1899-1901 16 The Hound of the Baskervilles to Louise's Death 1901-1906

Part Three
Giving Out

17 Edalji, Second Marriage and Windlesham 1907-1908 18 Pre-war: From Cornwall to Canada 1909-1914 19 First World War 1914-1918 20 Spiritualist Mission 1919-1924 21 Bignell Wood and Death 1925-1930Afterword Acknowledgments Notes Select Bibliography Index