The Legacy of Cain

Novel dedicated to Mrs Henry Powell Bartley (Carrie Graves) acknowledging her skill and patience in copying manuscripts for the printer. Henry Bartley was Collin's solicitor and, ironically, embezzled from the estate - the fate suffered by Miss Jillgall in the story. When a condemned woman asks the local Minister to take her daughter home, the childless man is touched and finds himself unable to refuse. Yet the prisoner is unrepentant of the murder of her husband. Will her vices be passed on to this seemingly sweet child?