[Gutenberg 8873] • The Isle of Unrest

Hugh Stowell Scott (1863? - 1903) was a novelist who used the pseudonym Henry Seton Merriman. His novels include The Slave of the Lamp (1892), The Sowers (generally considered his best) (1896), In Kedar's Tents (1897), Roden's Corner (1898), Isle of Unrest (1900), The Velvet Glove (1901), The Vultures (1902), and Barlasch of the Guard (1903). In The Isle of Unrest a daughter of a French general inherits an estate in Corsica. When she and her cousin decide to move to Corsica, a French gentleman also decides to make the trip to look after his estate that adjoins theirs. When he arrives at his estate he finds his father who has been presumed dead. His father fears assassination and has not left the estate in 30 years.