Excerpt from The Magnificent Adventure: This Being the Story of the World's Greatest Exploration, and the Romance of a Very Gallant Gentleman A Woman, tall, somewhat angular, dark of hair and eye, strong of features - a woman now approaching middle age - sat looking out over the long, tree-clad slopes that ran down from the gallery front of the mansion house to the gate at the distant roadway. She had sat thus for some moments, many moments, her gaze...