The Ne'er-Do-Well

A wealthy, idle young man named Kirk Anthony is swept from metropolitan pleasures to Panama after reckless choices and a perplexing mishap. Traveling under another's ticket and an assumed name, he enters an expatriate world shaped by the canal enterprise and its financiers and officials. Romantic attachment, political plotting, and business intrigue draw him into sieges, betrayals, and a deliberate sacrifice that force decisive action. Confronted with moral tests, he discovers courage and resourcefulness, undergoes an awakening, and moves toward restitution and personal redemption within his family and social circle.