A young lad's strange London adventure.
It is 1891, and plucky London orphan Earnest Baycroft is desperately in need of employment., the top hat blacking factory he had been working at having just burned down.
Word on Limestreet told him that a very eccentric gentleman named Doctor Albert St. Skulls the IVth lived there.
âBut be careful,â said his informer, âThey say he is more strict than most, and many the lad, such as yourself, what has gone to work for him, have not been seen for years, and when they turn back up, they refuse to talk about it.â
Unafraid of hard work or commitment, Earnest went to seek the job, with hat in hand, to knock on the St. Skulls' door.
Instead of opening, a slot in the door opened, revealing something like a garden hose that sprayed not water but something more like focused lightning that stuck Baycroft, knocking him both back three paces, and knocking all the young manliness out of him.
âWhat is this?â Earnest shouted in her new girlish voice and proceeded to pound on the door. "I demand to know what you have done to me, sir!â she demanded.
The door opened and she charged inside.
Earnest soon found out what it was all about. A scientist of some renown, Albert St. Skulls had recently been the victim of a high rate of dishonest house staff who had made off with the plans for what would have been some of his most impressive discoveries.
His salution, the development of a device that could do what it had done to Young Mister Baycroftâs form.
The deal he was offered, and a well-paying one it was, was that he or rather she would work for Dr. St. Skulls for four years and then, if she proved worthy, she would be reverted to her original form. However, if she didnât like it, she could just leave, as she was, to fend for herself as an orphan girl in cruel London Town.
Earnest took the job. For the duration of her stay, she was renamed Miss Delphine. She was then introduced to the other four former lads who made up the rest of the staff.
More impactful on Miss Delphineâs life where the members of the St. Skulls family dominering Mrs. Ambrosine St. Skulls, whose thoughts on the deportment of young women led to some peculiar training for the staff, and the willful and diabolically playful St. Skulls sisters Celestia and Petronilla who presented things from a different angle
In the end, it was a strange and eventful four years for Miss Dalphine Baycroft.
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