TO

W. R. TITTERTON

MY DEAR TITTERTON,

This parable for social reformers, as you know, was planned and partly written long before the War; so that touching some things, from Fascism to nigger dances, it was a quite unintentional prophecy. It was your too generous confidence that dragged it from its dusty drawer; whether the world has any reason to thank you I doubt; but I have so many reasons for thanking you, and recognising all you have done for our cause, that I dedicate this book to you.

Yours always, G. K. CHESTERTON

Contents

• I: A Hole in the Caste
• II: A Dangerous Man
• III: The Ladder in the Library
• IV: The First Trial of John Braintree
• V: The Second Trial of John Braintree
• VI: A Commission As Colourman
• VII: "Blondel the Troubadour"
• VIII: The Misadventures of Monkey
• IX: The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
• X: When Doctors Disagree
• XI: The Lunacy of the Librarian
• XII: The Stateman and the Summer-House
• XIII: The Victorian and the Arrow
• XIV: The Return of the Knight-Errant
• XV: The Parting of the Ways
• XVI: The Judgment of the King
• XVII: The Departure of Don Quixote
• XVIII: The Secret of Seawood
• XIX: The Return of Don Quixote