The Betrayal
E. Phillips Oppenheim |
Guy Ducaine is a recent graduate of Oxford University. Through a series of unfortunate events he is penniless and starving in the rural town of Brasters. His father has disgraced the family and is dead. His mother died long ago. Seeking to make a few shillings, he schedules a lecture on local history. On the same night, Lord Rowchester brings the the famous officer and explorer Colonel Mostyn Ray to the village to speak. Ducaines lecture fails and he returns to his small house and collapses from hunger. Found there by Ray, and Rowchesters lovely daughter, Lady Angela, they revive him and set in motion a complicated, entertaining, and devious plot. Ducaine becomes secretary to a War Preparations Committee which is chronically leaking plans to the enemy. Spies and counterespionage ensue.
