Charmian, Lady Vibart

Charmian, Lady Vibart is a novel dealing with many of the characters made famous by Jeffery Farnol in "e;The Broad Highway,"e; and the action takes place twenty years after the final episode of that book. Charmian, now in the early forties, is still a great beauty and not afraid to gamble love and honor in a game of sinister peril. Young Richard Vibart, son of Sir Peter and Lady Charmian, receives in Paris a challenge from a famous duelist whom Richard has slapped for speaking lightly of the boy's mother. When Sir Peter hears of it he hurries to Paris, while Charmian, with a plan of her own, follows secretly. This Farnol novel describing the joys and tribulations which parenthood has brought to the well-loved Charmian and Peter Vibart, recaptures the atmosphere of "e;The Broad Highway"e; in a fast-moving narrative which is replete with action and suspense.