Adventure, February 1917

Nobody's Island by Beatrice Grimshaw This February 1917 *Adventure* issue features the complete novel "Nobody's Island" by Beatrice Grimshaw, along with multiple shorter stories. Grimshaw's narrative opens in an Irish coastal village where young Jackie M'Neill reports hearing a woman crying in the sand-hills near Portrush. His mother suspects abandoned romance, but Jackie later sees the woman departing by train on her honeymoon. The story then shifts to introduce Slade, a resourceful, unmarried Australian adventurer—a rough-rider, mine-exploiter, and pioneer of unbeatable determination. While traveling to Colombo via P&O steamship, Slade meets Miss Edith Cardillion, a young woman from an exclusive but financially struggling English family descended from Richard Coeur-de-Lion. He proposes within ten days and becomes engaged to her. The narrative promises South Seas adventure set against emotional stakes involving the mysterious woman from Portrush and Slade's Australian circumstances.