Lineage

Son of a shoeshine New Zealand editorial assistant Angus Frasier is given the assignment of a lifetime by his publisher at the Dunedin Herald. Secretly in love with the publisher's blue blood daughter Kathleen McGlaughlin and coveting the publisher's lure of the top reporter's job if Angus sails the world chronicling his travels in articles for the paper. Unbekownst to Angus he is the descendant of a brave Scot indentured servant highlander Duncan Frasier who saved his clan lands by giving aid and comfort to the Redcoat General Richard Wolfe at the Battle of Quebec. On Wolfe's deathbed, he rewards Duncan by the field commendation of Sedgor Mor which means honorable noble soldier but the commendation was never formally written down for historical London archives. Angus sails to and meets his family in Montreal, Quebec who tell him the entire story and send him off to Glasgow Scotland to obtain the proof that he descends from noble lineage from their Scots' archives. Through his entire voyage, Angus has written excellent articles and sent them with poems to the paper but his efforts are obstructed and thwarted by the publisher who wants his daughter to marry aristocratic suitor Keane Sullivan. Unbeknownst to the publisher, Keane Sullivan's family wants to take oner the liberal paper and put him in mothballs to make the paper an advertising device for their textiles and shipping business empires. Kathleen stalls off marriage to Keane Sullivan for five years and the day Angus returns to Dunedin, he learns that Keane and Kathleen are in church getting married. Angus runs four clicks from Port Chalmers to Dunedin and arrives to stop Kathleen in her dressing room from marrying Keane by showing her his articles, his proof of noble lineage from Scotland and the love poems he wrote her abroad all signed by him personally. Keane is arrested and taken away as Angus and Kathleen are betrothed and everyone dances in joy and relief at the wedding reception now turned engagement party.