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The tale opens in April 1866 on the Cornish coast where a village of legal wreckers - salvagers - are led by Eugene Boynton and his son Conrad. On the eve of a storm Eugene tells Conrad of his eighty thousand pounds inheritance from his nobly-connected mother, and the mystery surrounding his grandfather's origins. Conrad and friend Tom Cowper save Sir Peter Trevor, his daughter Julia and her servant Mary Anderson from a sinking ship and so meet their respective love matches, but Conrad's father dies from the same attempt. Conrad meets the Earl of Ashmont who is nearly on his deathbed and avoids a plot to trap him as a smuggler and proves his title. (PB)
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- 1866
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Cornwall,
cEngland,ccUnited Kingdom (UK),cWestern Europe, Europe,
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