At Bay is the love story of Elsie and Hugh Glynn that begins in France with the final action in
England written under the pen name Mrs. Alexander by Annie French Hector. Enclosed in a
single volume the novel proceeds at a rapid pace pulling the reader into the heart of a
mystery that will find its solution only in the dramatic climax. Hector's works usually revolve
around a young girl torn between money family and love often complicated by a legacy.
Excerpt from At Bay The voice and accent which were peculiar neither French nor English nor
American though a little of all with an undertone of something that was none of the three
brought back to Glynn as by magic certain passages of his life ten years before-a big
crowded gambling saloon in the Far West dim with tobacco smoke and hot with gas-lights
reeking with the fumes of strong drink and echoing with the din of strange oaths suddenly
rose from out the caverns of memory a confusion of struggling figures a hand-to-hand conflict
the man before him gallantly backing him in a desperate fight to reach the door.
