Front matter

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 Karl Stein-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—and Death 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