But,--he forgot to take into consideration that very
vital emotion, love, which played havoc with his well-laid plans.
It is an ingenious combination of practical realism and imaginative
fiction worked out to a thoroughly delightful and satisfying climax.
Prisoners of Fortune. A TALE OF THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY
COLONY. BY RUEL PERLEY SMITH, author of "The Rival
Campers," etc.
Cloth decorative, with a colored frontispiece
by Frank T. Merrill $1.50
The period of Mr. Smith's story is the beginning of the eighteenth
century, when the shores of the American colonies were harassed and
the seas patrolled by pirates and buccaneers. These robbed and
spoiled, and often seized and put to death, the sailors and fishers
and other humbler folk, while their leaders claimed friendship alike
with Southern planters and New England merchants,--with whom it is
said they frequently divided their spoils.
The times were stern and the colonists were hardy, but they loved as
truly and tenderly as in more peaceful days. Thus, while the hero's
adventures with pirates and his search for their hidden treasure is a
record of desperate encounters and daring deeds, his love-story and
his winning of sweet Mary Vane is in delightful contrast.
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