Courtship and Fame — Robert Barr

Trenton has an eye for beauties -- of the countryside.

Certainly no ladies' man, he is something of an awkward sort, by his own admission. He came from England to view the American landscape, for the sake of art, not love.

Yet here at these picturesque falls he encounters one of the most difficult women he has ever met. Miss Eva Sommerton of Boston dislikes everything about him: the camera he totes around, his tobacco, even his manners!

Something more than argument sparks in the air between them, however -- as they are to learn when their return-trip canoe tips on the twilit river, tossing both into the rushing rapids!