Laughing Last

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1924. Reissue. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8x5x1. Reissue. Jacket edges rubbed, light stain to jacket spine base, front hinge just beginning to weaken. 1924 Hard Cover. 281 pp. "He who laughs last, laugh best," goes the saying. But it is a question in the Romley family who will be the last. Certainly not Sidney, though, who at fifteen asserted a strange independence and was probably the least of the famous Joseph Romley's children to look like a poet's daughter. But Sidney, determined to escape the stigma of poetry just for a summer, goes to visit her Aunt Achsa on Cape Cod. In the wharves and boats of Provincetown she finds a whole cargo of glorious adventures, including the capture of a band of ultra-modern pirates, with a five-thousand dollar reward. And, to her great surprise, she comes to play an unexpected part in sister Trude's romance, too.