Previously unpublished, this is one of the manuscripts recently ‘Found in the Attic’ by the author’s granddaughter.  It was probably written in the late 1920s, and foreshadows her later romances and family stories with that little humorous twist of something extra.
    Kenneth Leslie, needing money to start a new life in Canada after a broken engagement, answers an advertisement in the Daily Clarion -

          Retired Army Officer offers a large sum of money to a Young
          Man who wants Adventure. Must be of good appearance and
          free from dependants.

and finds more than he dreamed of: fishing, art, family skulduggery, rogues, thieves and fisticuffs, friendship – and romance.

Also included are four short stories, Moira, The Mulberry Coach, The Secret of the Black Rocks, and The Murder of Alma Atherton, and a novella, Where the Gentian Blooms.