Publisher's Synopsis
Portions of this story appeared in " The Woman at Home" under the title of " The Woman of Fortune " The author was a well-known writer of the ''Kailyard'' style in his day. Excerpt: There are several sorts of your countrymen and women in this story - all in their way as charming as I love to remember you two - that is, all save one. I suppose there are bad Americans. I read the New York Sunday World and seem to have heard of such, though possibly they may have been of foreign extraction. But the mean American I had neither heard of nor yet read of, till we three met him together under the glittering stars of the winter Engadine. I am certain that neither of you have forgotten Mr. Kearney Judd and the development of the various delightful traits of character which I have attempted to describe in these chapters. I remember with joy your own pregnant reply to that young gentleman's boast. /S. R. Crockett/
