Sir Ewain Clintock-McFay is brought back from the Scottish highlands on assignment--Burma to find out what's behind the death of British Agent Hearn, who, incidentally, owned one of the largest ruby mines in the country. And now his stepdaughter-in-law has disappeared. ""Clint"" finds himself a traveling companion to Hearn's ex-wife, sixty-going-on-twenty-five who eventually proves to have as many guts as hormone shots. Wynd is an old China roustabout and it's a good story.