E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's note: | | | | Inconsistent hyphenation and dialect spelling in the | | original document has been preserved. | | | | Greek text is enclosed by plus signs (+Greek+) | | | | Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. For | | a complete list, please see the end of this document. | | | +------------------------------------------------------------+ THE SIXTH SENSE A Novel by STEPHEN McKENNA Author of "The Reluctant Lovers" "Sheila Intervenes" "The World is a Comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel." _Horace Walpole to Sir Horace Mann._ London Chapman & Hall, Ltd. 1915 À L'INTROUVABLE 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