The story opens on a misty November afternoon at Radford Hall, the solid home of Sir Thomas Caldwell, and follows Hector Graeme, a young army officer, out to India and South Africa. Between garrison life, a sea voyage, a mysterious illness and an attachment that will not let him go, he is tested in love and in courage.
A 1912 novel of British army life and romance across the Empire, with the imperial assumptions of its day. Download the free EPUB.