چکیده : | This is a minor novel that investigates the inter between good and evil, spiritual self-sufficiency and personal power. Superficially is the story of the Judge who, to save his ward from financial misfortune, sells all worldly goods, retires in the country to a life of little which he devotes to the writ of his book. It is Severidge, a man he dislikes by instinct, who accomplishes the ruin of the Judge, endeavors next to gain control of his ward as he attempts to seduce her with the persuasion of money and power, until- through the Judge, she is aware of the values at stake |