Synopsis

FIRST BOOK. THE OUTER WORLD. I. On the morning of the 9th of May, 18--, three persons important to this story stood among the engers on the deck of the Isle of Man steamship Tynwald as she lay by the pier at Douglas getting up steam for the age to Liverpool. One of these was an old clergyman of seventy, with a sweet, mellow, childlike face; another was a young man of thirty, also a clergyman; the third was a girl of twenty. The older clergyman wore a white neckcloth about his throat, and was