Himalaya Club and Other Entertainments from the Raj

''Mrs Merrydale went off with Lieutenant Maxwell, leaving her children under the care of the servants, until her husband came to take them away. Mrs Hastings, who used to bore us about the duties of a wife, carried off that silly boy Stammersleigh. These elopements led to two actions in H.M. Supreme Court of Calcutta...'' Born in Australia in 1816, John Lang-novelist, newspaper editor and barriste...