Lady Evelyn

This issue of Street & Smith's ten-cent novel series (No. 141) contains Lady Evelyn or The Lord of Royal Rest by May Agnes Fleming. The narrative opens on the Wicklow coast of Ireland during a September storm. Lord Roderick Desmond, a reckless golden-haired young nobleman of twenty-one, prepares to sail his yacht Nora Creina to King's Head despite the gale. He encounters Kathleen O'Neal, a beautiful peasant girl—daughter of the village schoolmaster—waiting secretly to bid him goodbye. Their flirtation reveals an unequal attachment: Kathleen loves him desperately, while Roderick teases her about a rival suitor he calls "the Englishman," suggesting divided affections. He departs with characteristic daring, leaving Kathleen watching from the rocks as the vessel disappears into the stormy night. The Desmond family's aristocratic status and turbulent history are established through Roderick's genealogical banter. The text becomes fragmentary thereafter.