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A romance of
the days of
Monmouth's
rebellion.
Richard
Westmacott,
desirous of
securing to
himself his
sister's
fortune
plots
against her
lover,
Anthony
Wilding, and
finally
insults him
openly.
Wilding
takes
advantage of
the
situation to
force Ruth,
who hates
him, to
marry him in
order to
save her
brother.
In espousing
Monmouth's
cause.
Wilding is
imperiled
again and
again.
Ruth finally
comes to
learn that
she loves
him and to
see her
cowardly
brother in
his true
light.
The action
is rapid,
its style is
spirited,
its plot is
convincing,
and every
admirer of
the
incomparable
Sabatini
will find in
it several
hours filled
with
undiluted
pleasure.
The scene is
Monmouth's
Rebellion,
set in the
West Country
in
seventeenth-century
England. As
the
ill-fated
and weak
'King
Monmouth'
attempts to
rally his
insubordinate
troops,
Anthony
Wilding
embarks upon
his own
quest--to
woo his
unwilling
bride. The
political
and personal
stories are
magically
interwoven
in this
exciting
historical
romance, and
it is
Wilding who
ultimately
emerges the
wiser of the
two men.
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