Lord Billy Bunter

The tall lean stranger with a strong American accent wanted to see Lord Mauleverer. He chose an odd way of contacting Mauly however – he appeared at the practice nets when the Remove were putting in some training for the cricket match with St. Jim's. And luckily Mauly, Greyfriars' young millionaire, wasn't there, because Fisher T. Fish, the junior from New York, recognized the stranger as Marcus K. Hoot, a notorious kidnapper, whose face was known throughout the U.S.A. Marcus K. Hoot got away with speed when Fishy recognized him, but that didn't put an end to his designs on Lord Mauleverer.

It was just bad luck for Bunter that he had been too busy getting hold of some tuck in No. 1 Study, while Harry Wharton and Co. were at the nets, to know what was going on. So, when he wangled himself a tea with the swell of St. Jim's, Arthur Augustus D'Arcy, and "borrowed" Mauly's clothes for the occasion, he had no idea what he was letting himself in for. He soon found out when he met Mr. Hoot on the road and Mr. Hoot caught sight of Lord Mauleverer's name in Bunter's purloined hat. Bunter finds that being a Lord was perhaps not quite the bed of roses he had imagined.

This Bunter story has been dramatized and broadcast twice on BBC Television.