Hepsey Burke

'Hepsey Burke' is an adventure-drama novel written by Frank N. Westcott. The story unfolds as a noisy, loose-jointed train pulls out of the station, leaving behind it a solitary young man, enveloped in smoke and cinders. There was no one in sight but the station-master. The new arrival was good to look at—a handsome, well-built fellow of about twenty-five, dressed in a gray suit which was non-committal as to his profession, with a clean-shaven face which bore the unmistakable stamp of good breeding and unlimited good-nature. He tilted his suit-case on end and sat down on it; then he filled his briar pipe, crossed his legs, and looked about to take stock of the situation. He gazed about curiously; but there was nothing of any special interest in sight, except, painfully conspicuous on the face of a grass terrace, the name of the village picked out in large letters composed of oyster-shells and the bottoms of protruding beer bottles stuck in the ground.