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Synopsis:
Natalie Graybrooke is the only and much-loved daughter of Sir Joseph Graybrooke, a wealthy industrialist. Advised to take her on a sea voyage to restore her heath., he turns to his old friend Richard Turlington, a trader of the Levant, who immeeiately places his schooner at Sir Joseph's disposal. Thus it is that the warm and beautiful Natalie, on the brink of womanhood, finds herself regarded by two men: Richard Turlington, to whom her dowry would be an important source of finance, and who seems to have a respectable trade and income; and Launcelot Linzie, her cousin, on board as surgeon, with whom she shares a mutual and strong attraction. As the ship makes for home, the tension between the two men heightens, and then Turlington finds that his business is facing financial collapse....