Munsey's Magazine, August 1922

About this issue

This August 1922 issue of Munsey's Magazine features the opening installment of "The Man Hunt," a romance by Hulbert Footner set in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay region. The protagonist is Pen Broome, a twenty-four-year-old woman managing the deteriorating family estate at Broome's Point while her father pursues intellectual hobbies like Mendelian genetics. Frustrated by domestic drudgery—butter-making, canning, managing unreliable servants—Pen escapes to a secluded eighteenth-century temple where a young ancestor is buried. Her solitude is interrupted when an attractive stranger, Donald Counsell, arrives by canoe seeking supplies. Pen responds to his obvious interest with defensive hostility while experiencing unexpected physical attraction. The extract concludes as Counsell asks to purchase butter and eggs, their first commercial transaction tentatively establishing connection between these isolated figures.