As "THE WOMAN THOU GAVEST ME" was the woman's story, so "THE MASTER
OF MAN" is the man's story. Both deal with the same eternal subject.
They are the opposite facets of the same coin. The new novel is,
like "THE DEEMSTER," a story of sin, suffering and redemption. But
the story is entirely different. Victor Stowell, a young man of fine
nature, coming of a family with high traditions, commits a sin
against a woman in circumstances of extreme temptation such as come
to millions of young men in every generation. He conceals his sin,
and his concealment leads to other and still other sins, until his
whole life is wrapped up in falsehood, and even the little community
in which he lives is in danger of being submerged in the
consequences. In his sufferings he descends as into Hell, but at
length he sees that there is only one salvation for himself, his
victim and his people--confession and reparation. After he has
confessed his secret sin and paid the penalty in renunciation, he is
saved from spiritual death by the love of a noble-hearted woman who
has inspired him to the act of atonement--so the climax of the story
is the resurrection of his soul. The scene is literally the Isle of
Man, and the period the present, but the one may be said to be all
the world, and the other all time, for the subject is universal.