Gaspard, a French Huguenot boy, was taken in by a group of outlaws, smugglars of salt. After several adventures he met the famous Huguenot paster, Claude Brousson. Then the main story begins. Skillfully the author, in her last novel, intertwined the historical facts about Brousson with the fictional accoint of Gaspard and Tardiff. Shortly after it was written a mother of four boys wrote: "The boys are getting very critical of books for reading aloud on Sunday afternoonm but they all declare this is 'a ripping book.'"