![]() ![]() ![]() After meeting Prince Odalchini, Jaikie is captured by Juventus who have been picketing the castle. Juventus, like the monarchists, wants to overthrow the corrupt and unpopular government, but many of its leaders see Prince John as a puppet of his conservative backers. ![]() On the way he meets Count Paul 'Ashie' Jovian, a friend from Cambridge who is now a leader of the youth group Juventus. While on his walking tour Jaikie meets Randal Glynde - now proprietor of the Cirque Doré - who encourages him to visit Evallonia, and arranges for him to meet one of the leading monarchists, Prince Odalchini, at his castle 'The House of the Four Winds'. The novel is set in the fictional Central European country of Evallonia and opens two years after the events recounted in Castle Gay.Īt the beginning of the novel several characters formerly seen in Huntingtower and Castle Gay are about to go to Europe for the summer: Dickson McCunn to a German Kurhaus for his health Alison Westwater to join her parents Lord and Lady Rhynns at Unnutz in Germany Archie Roylance to attend a dull conference in Geneva along with his wife Janet John 'Jaikie' Galt on a walking tour and Dougal Crombie on a mission for his newspaper. ![]() It is a Ruritanian romance, and the last of his three Dickson McCunn books. The House of the Four Winds is a 1935 adventure novel by the Scots author John Buchan. ![]()
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