Fortune Goes Begging // Nurse Langridge, Heiress — Margaret Malcolm

It went against all Nurse Nan Langridge's principles that she should become a rich woman simply because she had nursed old Mr. Moore with the devoted care she believed it was her duty to give to all her patients.

No one -- least of all the man who wanted to marry her -- could understand her scruples. Nor could they appreciate her feeling that Ricky Moore, the old man's son, had more right to his father's money than she had, even though they had been estranged for years.

As a result, Nan told no one of her plan to find Ricky and see for herself whether he was the idle n'er-do-well that everybody believed him to be. She found Ricky, and some further complications, on the tiny Channel Island of L'Ecrin where he ran a hotel.

Nan almost gave up hope of finding a way out of the tangle, but Ricky himself had a part to play and as a result, Nan found herself a truly rich woman.