convincingly, as a scruple of verbal veracity. That is the quality of Bernard Capes’ romances that remains in my own memory; a quality, as it were, too subtle for its own subject. Men may well go back to find the poems thus embedded in his prose. 

 G. K. Chesterton. 

G. K. Chesterton

  

 Mrs Bernard Capes wishes to express her gratitude to Mr Chesterton for his appreciative introduction to her husband’s last work, and to Mr A. K. Cook for his invaluable assistance in preparing it for the press. 

 Winchester 

Winchester

 CONTENTS. 

 Introduction 

 I. My First Meeting with the Baron 

 II. My Second Meeting with the Baron 

 III. Wildshott 

 IV. I Am Interested in the Baron 

 V. The Baron Continues to Interest Me 

 VI. “That Thunders in the Index” 

 VII. The Baron Visits the Scene of the Crime 

 VIII. An Entr’acte 

 IX. The Inquest 

 X. Afterwards 

 XI. The Baron Drives 

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