A brisk canter through the next 5 years will get us, with Dum, W.P. and Nelson safely to The Willows, Windsor and once more into the clutches of Dhunjibhoy. What follows are the more exciting ‘adventures’ only.

[further] Adventures of W.P. 1 and Link 1924
1924
25 January	Weight 12-13 and W.P. 8-8½
12 February	Paid deposit on 97
20 February	Left Brooklyn for 97 Inverness Ter.
29 February	Leap Year day. 1st day possession, and commencement of hotel work.
16 July	W.P. interviewed Loosby, Best, Saunders 2
17 July	W.P. to Eastbourne.
20 July	Left 97. Went to Whitehall Hotel £8-8-0
26 July	Mrs Soundy to hospital 3
24 July	Handed keys of house to Lloyd noon
29 July	Finally handed over 97 at noon.
31 July	Operation 4
8 August	Paid deposit on 32 Belsize Sq.
2 September	Took possession of 32 at 11-30 a.m.
17 September	Weight 11-11
Xmas Day	At 32 Belsize Square
1925	See 5
1 March	Commenced converting house to hotel requirements
11 April	Dealings with tenants of flats finished
May	Bruce to Canada 6
1 September	Opened as Luxtun Hotel. Took 6 months to complete the overhaul and change
1926	See 7
May	Bruce to Canada

1. W.P. is Dum's wife Elsie. Subsequent years do not have this caption.
2. A firm of solicitors? three prospective tenants? domestic servants? No idea!
3. Elsie's mother.
4. Whose [Mrs Soundy's?] or what unclear.
5. Too busy to weigh himself.
6. Bruce, b. 1909, was second of Elsie's 3 children from her first marriage. Doris b. 1908, Dudley 1912
7. As for 5