title: Curious Quests of Brigadier Fellowes
author: Sterling Lanier
description: The remarkable Brigadier Fellowes, whose exploits are legend, has returned, and along with him comes a sense of wonder that is increasingly difficult to find in contemporary fantasy.
  Fellowes of course is the retired British general who is a link between our bustling twentieth century and a world that is full of the bizarre and fantastic.
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  MR. BRISHER'S TREASURE  
    
  
  
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  # MR. BRISHER'S TREASURE
  
  
  ### H. G. Wells
  
  
  
  
  
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  Etext scanned by Aaron Cannon, formatted and proofed by
  
  
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  "You can't be TOO careful WHO you marry," said Mr. Brisher, and
  
  
  pulled thoughtfully with a fat-wristed hand at the lank moustache
  
  
  that hides his want of chin.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "That's why—" I ventured.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "Yes," said Mr. Brisher, with a solemn light in his bleary, blue-grey
  
  
  eyes, moving his head expressively and breathing alcohol INTIMATELY
  
  
  at me. "There's lots as 'ave 'ad a try at me—many as I could name
  
  
  in this town—but none 'ave done it—none."
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  I surveyed the flushed countenance, the equatorial expansion,
  
  
  the masterly carelessness of his attire, and heave