# Mr. Teddy Watkins — Short Fiction character guide

> Mr. Teddy Watkins in Short Fiction by H. G. Wells.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Mr. Watkins, Watkins, Teddy Watkins

**First appearance:** 0083-the-obliterated-man

## Snapshot

A shy, loosely-built housebreaker whose carefully planned burglary collapses into a moonlit chase, a mistaken identity, and an unexpected flask of brandy.

## Who they are

Mr. Watkins is a professional cracksman of long experience, working the Hammerpond house with his assistant Jim when a stumble in the shrubbery turns the night against him. His shyness, his vanity about his craft, and his readiness to bolt when surprised make him both comic and oddly sympathetic. The pursuit through the park matters because it exposes how quickly a competent man becomes a confused fugitive, and how strangers may treat him with more kindness than his own accomplice.

## In the story

### [The Hammerpond Park Burglary](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_25_se/chapters/the-hammerpond-park-burglary)

The protagonist burglar who poses as a landscape artist named Smith to infiltrate Hammerpond Park.

### [The Lost Inheritance](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_25_se/chapters/the-lost-inheritance)

The narrator of the story, a man with a glass eye who expected to inherit his uncle's fortune.

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