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origins and insist Dick must find at least one parent, or the wedding is off. Dick has a series of adventures in his search: he believes Mollie Maybud, a cabaret singer, is his sister, but she turns out to be a girlfriend of
Colonel Bunting. Dick saves Alice Hawkins from marrying Bradbury Bitters, as she is in love with Jack Foster; he then believes Alice's aunt, another Mrs Bunting, is his mother, as she had lost a “little one” in the same hotel, but this turns out to have been a pet monkey. Finally, Dr Randall produces a document which the Bunting family accept as giving Dick a respectable background.
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Randall and his bride were on their honeymoon in Brighton in 1894 when they found a baby boy abandoned on their bed, so adopted him and brought him up. Twenty-five years on, Dick Randall is engaged to Rose Bunting, but her parents, Colonel and Mrs Bunting, have been told the story of his
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