by Robert Louis Stevenson
Dramatised as a serial in eight parts by R. J. B. Sellar 5
—' Peril in the North '
Production by James Crampsey
St. Ives has succeeded in his attempt to reach the bedside of his great-uncle, the Comte de Keroual, in Buckinghamshire. The old man appoints St. Ives his heir and gives him ten thousand pounds. St. Ives feels that with this fortune his troubles are nearly over.
But there is bad news almost immediately. He hears that he is being sought as the escaped French prisoner-of-war and as the murderer of his fellow-prisoner, Goguelat. And then he is confronted by his unscrupulous cousin Alain who threatens to betray him.