A battle for business and romance on a tropical isle. By years of grueling labor, Smith made a Caribbean island profitable and productive – but now New York wheeler-dealer Christopher Beaumont plots to deprive long-suffering investors of their rewards. Can Smith defeat Beaumont, keep his own self-respect, and win the love of Beaumont’s sharp-witted, beautiful daughter? Webster, a popular author of the early 20th century, wrote short stories and novels with intriguing characters pursuing goals in unusual ways, sometimes in the business world.
Table of Content
CHAPTER 1: THE INSURGENTS
CHAPTER 2: IN THE DARK
CHAPTER 3: A PARLEY
CHAPTER 4: FORT HOUSE
CHAPTER 5: AN ULTIMATUM
CHAPTER 6: INCENSE TO DIANA
CHAPTER 7: A FLANK MOVEMENT
CHAPTER 8: WIRELESS
CHAPTER 9: A SEA CHANGE
CHAPTER 10: TEMPEST
CHAPTER 11: HIDDEN TREASURE
CHAPTER 12: CALICO JACK
CHAPTER 13: THE CITADEL
CHAPTER 14: ALL’S WELL: ENDS WELL
About the author
At age five, I won my first writing award: a three-foot-long fire truck with an ear-splitting siren. I’ve been addicted to writing ever since. Today I’m an independent researcher, freelance writer, and lecturer. The challenge of figuring out how ideas and facts fit together, and then sharing what I know with others, clearly and concisely – that’s what makes me leap out of bed in the morning. Janson’s *History of Art*, lent to me by a high-school art teacher, was my first clue that art was more than the rock-star posters and garden gnomes that I saw in Catawissa, Pennsylvania, and that history wasn’t just a series of names, dates, and statistics. Soon afterwards I read Ayn Rand’s fiction and nonfiction works, and discovered that art and history – as well as politics, ethics, science, and all fields of human knowledge – are integrated by philosophy. My approach to studying art is based on Rand’s *The Romantic Manifesto*. (See my review of it on Amazon.) As an art historian I’m a passionate amateur, and I write for other passionate amateurs. I love looking at art, and thinking about art, and helping other people have a blast looking at it, too. *Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan: A Historical Guide* (New York University Press, 2007), which includes 54 sculptures, was described by Sam Roberts in the *New York Times* as ‘a perfect walking-tour accompaniment to help New Yorkers and visitors find, identify and better appreciate statues famous and obscure’ (1/28/2007). Every week I issue four art-related recommendations to my supporters, which have been collected in *Starry Solitudes* (poetry) and *Sunny Sundays* (painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, and more). For more of my works, see https://diannedurantewriter.com/books-essays . Since 2018, I’ve been collecting and publishing Henry Kitchell Webster’s short stories, and republishing his early novels.More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor
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