Lucy Allerton, proud and ruined by her father’s disgrace, finds a steady heart in Alec MacKenzie, an explorer bound for an expedition against slave traders in East Africa. She asks him to take her brother George and make a man of him. What happens on that expedition, and what Alec chooses to keep secret, puts their love to the hardest test.
Early Maugham, a drama of honour and silence whose view of Africa is that of 1908. Download the free EPUB.