Robert William Chambers

The Firing Line Illustrated Robert William Chambers

The Firing Line by Robert W. Chambers (1908). This story opens at Palm Beach, Florida, where Garret Hamil, a young landscape gardener from New York, has arrived to lay out a park on the magnificent estate of a wealthy man named Cardross. Hamil immediately falls victim to the charms of Shiela Cardross, an unusually beautiful and fascinating girl, who is an adopted daughter of the financier. When he proposes she tells him that it is impossible to accept him as she is already married. Shiela then explains that two years prior to this time, when she was eighteen years of age, she made the discovery that she was not the real child of her beloved parents but had been a nameless foundling.