I would like to express my warm thanks to Thomas B. Gill, Esq., Manager of Gough’s Caves, Cheddar, and to the management of the Theatre Royal, Bristol, for their freely given permission for me ‘to set some of the imaginary incidents of this story in Gough’s Caves and the Theatre Royal respectively.
No person or persons depicted in this book are based on any persons connected with these two concerns, because all the characters are wholly fictitious.