There is, however, very little mystery.

Many incidents of each of these years are revealed at one or other point.

His home, to which he returned from time to time, was with his mother at the cottage in Willow Lane, Norwich.

Whether he made sufficient profit out of a horse, as in _The Romany Rye_, to enable him to travel upon the proceeds, as Dr.Knapp thinks, we cannot say.

Dr.
Knapp is doubtless right in assuming that during this period he led 'a life of roving adventure,' his own authorised version of his career at the time, as we have quoted from the biography in his handwriting from _Men of the Time_.