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.