The Master of Man

The Story of a Sin

By

Hall Caine

"Be sure your sin will find you out"

Philadelphia & London J. B. Lippincott Company 1921

The Master of Man is published also in ENGLAND CANADA AUSTRALIA FRANCE DENMARK HOLLAND SWEDEN FINLAND

COPYRIGHT, 1920, 1921, BY SIR HALL CAINE, K.B.E.

Electrotyped and Printed by J. B. Lippincott Company The Washington Square Press, Philadelphia, U.S.A.

CONTENTS

FIRST BOOK

THE SIN

1. The Breed of the Ballamoar 2. The Boyhood of Victor Stowell 3. Father and Sons 4. Enter Fenella Stanley 5. The Student-at-Law 6. The World of Woman 7. The Day of Temptation 8. The Call of Bessie Collister 9. The Master of Man 10. The Call of the Ballamoars

SECOND BOOK

THE RECKONING

11. The Return of Fenella 12. The Death of the Deemster 13. The Saving of Kate Kinrade 14. The Everlasting Song of the Sea 15. The Woman's Secret 16. At the Speaker's 17. The Burning Boat 18. The Great Winter

THIRD BOOK

THE CONSEQUENCE

19. The Eve of Mary 20. Victor Stowell's Vow 21. Mother's Law or Judge's Law? 22. The Soul of Hagar 23. Stowell in London 24. Alick Gell 25. The Deemster's Oath

FOURTH BOOK

THE RETRIBUTION

26. The Wind and the Whirlwind 27. The Judge and the Man 28. The Trial 29. The Two Women—The Two Men 30. The Verdict

FIFTH BOOK

THE REPARATION

31. "Victor! Victor! My Victor!" 32. The Voice of the Sea 33. The Heart of a Woman 34. The Man and the Law 35. "And God Made Man of the Dust of the Ground" 36. Out of the Depths 37. The Escape 38. The Grave of a Sin

SIXTH BOOK

THE REDEMPTION

39. The Birth of a Lie 40. The Call of a Woman's Soul 41. In the Valley of the Shadow 42. "He Drove Out the Man" 43. The Dawn of Morning 44. "God Gave Him Dominion"

SEVENTH BOOK

THE RESURRECTION

45. The Way of the Cross 46. Victory Through Defeat 47. The Resurrection

CONCLUSION

AUTHOR'S NOTE

I wish to acknowledge my indebtedness to conversations, many years ago, with the late Karl Emil Franzos for important incidents in Chapter Forty-Four, which, founded on fact, were in part incorporated by the Russo-Jewish writer in his noble book, "The Chief Justice."

Also I wish to say that Tolstoy told me, through his daughter, that similar incidents occurring in Russia (although he altered them materially) had suggested the theme of his great novel, "Resurrection."

For as much knowledge as I may have been able to acquire of Manx law and legal procedure, I am indebted to Mr. Ramsey B. Moore, the Attorney-General in the Isle of Man, the scene of my story.

H. C.

Greeba Castle, Isle of Man.

The Master of Man