Yes desertblues, try the Mobile Read copy - it sounds as if you have something quite different.
I was utterly captivated by the first story and am continuing to enjoy the quirkiness of the whole idea. Chesterton has some lovely turns of phrase, as for example the opening sentence of
The Singular Speculation of the House-Agent:
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Lieutenant Drummond Keith was a man about whom conversation always burst like a thunderstorm the moment he left the room.
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A few pages later, the description of the house-agent of the title concludes:
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He wore a shabby black frock-coat, a sort of semi-clerical tie worn at a very unclerical angle, and looked, generally speaking, about as unlike a house-agent as anything could look, short of something like a sandwich man or a Scotch Highlander.
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issybird, I think that's a great insight about Basil being a "holy fool" and thanks for the link to the interesting article.