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 Manoeuvres

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