_The Novels of Hall Caine_ THE SHADOW OF A CRIME A SON OF HAGAR THE DEEMSTER THE BONDMAN THE SCAPEGOAT THE MANXMAN THE CHRISTIAN THE ETERNAL CITY THE WHITE PROPHET THE PRODIGAL SON THE WOMAN THOU GAVEST ME THE MASTER OF MAN 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._