Huntingtower

In Huntingtower there is a retired Glasgow grocer who starting out for a walking tour with a knapsack and a poetry book finds himself within twenty-four hours up to the neck in one of the wildest plots of adventure it ever entered the heart of man to conceive. There is a beautiful Russian princess abducted by Bolsheviki and immured in the lonely castle by the sea; there are hidden jewels a villainous innkeeper with a gang of tinklers keeping watch over the princess until the archvillain arrives in a Danish brig to carry off his helpless victim. How these wicked ones are outmanoeuvred and disposed of by the strategy of Dougal the captain of a little company of Glasgow street-boys the Gombal Diehards with the aid of our retired grocer and a romantic poet picked up on the march - such is the staple of this fascinating tale of humor and adventure. Dougal is a boy of grit and strategy with no English peer his nearest kin in fiction being Huck Finn; and the spirited old peasant Mrs. Morran will live with the best of Barrie