This ebook was transcribed by Les Bowler.

CUPID IN AFRICA

BY
P. C. WREN

AUTHOR OF “BEAU GESTE”

“Ex Africa semper aliquid novi”

“And the son shall take his father’s spear
And he shall avenge his father” . . .

—Askari Song

HEATH CRANTON LIMITED
6 FLEET LANE LONDON E.C.4

First published 1920

CONTENTS

PART I
THE MAKING OF BERTRAM

CHAPTER

PAGE

I

Major Hugh Walsingham Green

[7]

II

Mr. Charles Stayne-Brooker (or Herr KarlStein-Brücker)

[10]

III

Mrs. Stayne-Brooker—and Her Ex-Stepson

[13]

PART II
THE BAKING OF BERTRAM BY WAR

I

Bertram Becomes a Man of War

[16]

II

And is Ordered to East Africa

[28]

III

Preparations

[40]

IV

Terra Marique Jactatus

[45]

V

Mrs. Stayne-Brooker

[59]

VI

Mombasa

[61]

VII

The Mombasa Club

[70]

VIII

Military and Naval Manœuvres

[78]

IX

Bertram Invades Africa

[97]

X

M’paga

[105]

XI

Food and Feeders

[112]

XII

Reflections

[123]

XIII

Baking

[137]

XIV

The Convoy

[146]

XV

Butindi

[154]

XVI

The Bristol Bar

[161]

XVII

More Baking

[171]

XVIII

Trial

[180]

XIX

Of a Pudding

[187]

XX

Stein-Brücker Meets Bertram Greene—andDeath

[195]

PART III
THE BAKING OF BERTRAM BY LOVE

I

Mrs. Stayne-Brooker Again

[204]

II

Love

[208]

III

Love and War

[217]

IV

Baked

[226]

V

Finis

[236]

PART I
THE MAKING OF BERTRAM