A lady and her husband come aboard a convict ship to look at the prisoners, and one young man catches her attention. After a wreck gives him a chance at a new life, the story moves to London, where a man named Steele makes his way at the bar and moves among opera boxes, parks and drawing rooms, haunted by his past and drawn to a woman who once crossed his path.
An entertaining romantic adventure of reversals and second chances from 1909. Download the free EPUB.