"The Strong Arm" is a romantic tale about a young German nobleman's love for a peasant girl to the threat of his station in life. The position of Count Herbert when, at the age of thirty-one, he took up his residence in the ancient castle of his line, was a most enviable one. His marriage with Beatrix, Countess von Falkenstein, had added the lustre of a ruling family to the prestige of his own, and the renown of his valour in the East had lost nothing in transit from the shores of the Mediterranean to the banks of the Rhine. But his new love interest threatens to tear apart everything he has worked so hard to accomplish…
