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...Scenario. Janey Davenport, fabulously an heiress, famously a beauty, jaunts over to Italy in her own yacht. Fortunately for the love interest, her entourage includes two clean-limbed Anglo-Saxons, and the scion of a noble French family. At twenty-six Janey has experienced everything but true love. Disillusioned therefore regarding the tender passion, she rejects her three seagoing suitors, and resolves to barter her wealth and her person for some prince in reduced circumstances...
...Sicily! Here the dagger flash is a little swifter, the blood a little hotter. At Palermo, Janey finds her olive-skinned prince. He invites her to a house-party at his ancient castle far up in the hills, whereupon Janey promptly despatches her male escorts on a cruise, and sets off for the hills with a guileless chaperon and two flappers. Arrived at the ramshackle castle, the prince mysteriously disappears. A servant explains that the most famous brigand in Sicily is in the district seeking that prince's blood. Janey interviews the bold bad bandit, arranges for the safe...
...captor, di Bari, produces an airplane, and flies his beautiful prey to a great stone cave in the mountains, where Janey expects crude camp fare, but finds instead all the comforts of home-roaring fires, fine books, kindly serving maids. At dinner appears the snivelling prince, captive too, to be tortured with the display of beauty that might have been his, but is now allotted to the bandit's delectation. Except by way of torturing the prince, di Bari's intentions are, however, honorable...