Good one Richard. That pushes it 30 years back from Arthur Quiller Couch, and across the Atlantic. Troy Town, for those who haven't read it, is about a Fenian plot sustained by aristocratic impersonation, the better to play on the middle- class sensibilities of the petty snobs of a small provincial town. And much of the plot involves the expectation of a ship from America.

Read it, it's much better than my pallid description. Find out the significance of cumeelfo.