by Robert Louis Stevenson
Dramatised as a serial for broadcasting in eight parts by R. J. B. Sellar
3— 'The Great North Road '
Production by James Crampsey
St. Ives has escaped from Edinburgh Castle and taken refuge in Swanston Cottage, the home of Flora Gilchrist who had befriended him during his imprisonment and with whom he is already deeply in love.
With Flora and her brother Ronald, he is making plans to visit his dying great-uncle in England when they are discovered by the formidable maiden aunt of the young Gilchrists.