ABOUT BOOK

A young artist and writer tells the story of two Carville brothers, one of them a sea-faring man whose Italian wife and two little boys live next door to the artist and his friends in a small New Jersey town; the other, a strange, sinister character, who has a great power over women. The latter character does not enter the story directly. Author in his preface tells how the novel has been rewritten from an earlier version published in London in 1914.