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Brown, Mr. (I). Mr Brown (I) was created by Raymond Barrett and appeared in “Brown: Benefactor at Large” (All-Story Weekly, Jan. 10-Feb 28, 1920).

William Henry Brown, known to his casual friends as the “dignified Mr. Brown,” is a wealthy English bachelor of thirty-five, with no business or social ambitions and a large lonely house. The only thing that gives Brown entertainment and diversion is some adventure, and the only adventure he can create for himself is to draw a card from a deck. On each card is a note for himself, “as the ideas came to him--some from observation, others from chance remarks or newspaper items--any suggestion that might enable him to relieve a woman from some petty embarrassment.” An example is the command, on the card, to “Tell a young woman that she’s losing a purple garter.” This leads him into a duel between police and a “slick gang of petermen and dips” whose token is a purple garter. (Brown helps the police, naturally).

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