Benjamin Scobell owns the casino on the tiny Mediterranean island of Mervo, and he decides that business would improve with a restored monarchy. He fetches the rightful prince, a young American named John, and plans to marry him to his stepdaughter Betty Silver, who has ideas of her own, before the story moves to the office of a New York weekly paper.
Early Wodehouse, mixing romantic comedy with newspaper adventure, for readers curious about the master before Jeeves. Download the free EPUB.