Mon Paul the Private Life of a Privateer

1928. The book begins: He was fourteen when he heard them say that he was not the son of Paul, the worn old gardener; but, that he was the natural son of the Earl of Selkirk. He, John Paul, the natural son of the Earl of Selkirk! Young as he was it stirred him with pride. For indeed, was it not more desirable to be the descendant of the high and mighty Selkirks than that of the lowly Pauls?