Another Day  ‡

UK Publisher: Sampson Low, Marston and Co. Ltd. (London). First published 1929

eBook at Project Gutenberg

This narrative really opens with the song of a lark caroling joyously in the sunny air high over the Sussex Downs, whereon lay young Keith Dallas Chisholm flat on his back, a dusty, travel-worn figure, gazing up at the soaring bird with wistful, haggard eyes. Sitting up wearily at last, he glanced down at the crumpled letter in his fingers, a large sheet of thick notepaper bearing neither date nor address, but these words in bold, hasty scrawl:

"There are sins I can forgive and have forgiven you, but murder is not one of them. Your allowance shall be paid as usual so long as you keep clear of the States and forget you were ever the son of Wilbur I. Chisholm."

Keith Dallas Chisholm, Mr. Farnol's young American hero, believing, with his millionaire father, that he is guilty of killing the man he hated, has fled from New York to England where he encounters a very small but friendly damsel, Patience. Keith meets and befriends the little girl's big sister, Josepha, but he is torn between a desire not to lose sight of his Goddess and the guilty thought that there is blood on his hand so that he can have no place in the life of so lovely and innocent a girl.

Written in a more modern setting than is his custom, Mr. Farnol's novel contains all the elements of love, adventure and characterization that made the author of "The Broad Highway" famous.