CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
[PROLOGUE. London After Twenty Years]1
I.[War à Outrance]25
II.[Supper With a Mystic]46
III.[Brandon Court]62
IV.[The First Round]84
V.[Commemoration]103
VI.[The Second Round]123
VII.[A Cause Célèbre]140
VIII.[Henley—and After]160
IX.[The Third Round]178
X.[The Zeal That outruns Discretion] 197
XI.[The Amateur Detective]214
XII.[The Sixth Sense]232
XIII.[Or the Obvious Alternative]247
XIV.[Through a Glass Darkly]263
XV.[The Raid]279
XVI.[Rimini]296
[EPILOGUE]308


THE SIXTH SENSE

PROLOGUE

LONDON AFTER TWENTY YEARS

"As when a traveller, bound from North to South,
Scouts fur in Russia: what's its use in France?
In France spurns flannel: where's its need in Spain?
In Spain drops cloth, too cumbrous for Algiers!
Linen goes next, and last the skin itself,
A superfluity at Timbuctoo.
When, through his journey was the fool at ease?
I'm at ease now, friend; worldly in this world,
I take and like its way of life; I think
My brothers who administer the means,
Live better for my comfort—that's good too;
And God, if he pronounce upon such life,
Approves my service, which is better still."

Robert Browning: "Bishop Blougram's Apology."