Summary
In a fog-choked Irish port where gulls wheel like torn paper, Derith Keogh—ink-eyed heiress to a rusting empire of rivets and salt—trades her father’s ghost for a ledger of bruises, conceding every anarchic whim of John Trevelyan, the red-sashed poet of revolt who preaches dynamite sermons from atop coal scuttles. Her gadabout sibling, John the Younger, chases a continental siren through absinthe haze while Angus Campbell, the superintendent whose heart beats in Morse code beneath his oil-streaked waistcoat, hurls his resignation into the harbor like a gauntlet, then returns, coat collar high, to parley between capital and catastrophe. Trevelyan, crucified by one of his own disciples in a candle-lit loft smelling of turpentine and cheap gin, bleeds out his utopia yet still brokers peace, sealing the strike with a whispered curse and a handshake that smells of cordite—leaving Derith to inherit not only iron but the fragile truce of a world teetering on its own rusted edge.
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In managing the shipyard inherited from her father, Derith Keogh has considerable labor problems and accedes to the unreasonable demands of John Trevelyan, an anarchist labor agitator. Derith's brother John is off in pursuit of an adventuress, and Angus Campbell, her superintendent, resigns in exasperation. Angus returns, however, to help Derith persuade Trevelyan to settle a strike, which Trevelyan accomplishes in spite of being shot by one of his own men.
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