The pains of office – Jem Bucks in haste – Mysterious affair at Roehampton – Maternal solicitude.

My first adventure in my new capacity gave me a strong interest in the sort of life I had now adopted, and compensated for many of the awkward and disagreeable feelings which I had to undergo. I was by this time tolerably well acquainted with London; but was personally a stranger to police transactions, and every thing at Bow Street was new to me.