What happens when cruel laws imprison a youth for no fault of his, for over 19 years? Where will the bitterness, hatred and
anger go? Where will a mind running from the law and a relentless keeper of the law find solace? How will this frozen rock thaw? Will fate hand this man, back to the law? The answer is in a Bishop who is the very embodiment of spirituality. The act of the Bishop, true to the teachings of Christ, melts an otherwise stony heart, to come back to civilization, become an entrepreneur, and the Mayor of a city! It also makes the Mayor abdicate, and reveal his true
identity when he finds that an innocent will be sent to the gallows in his mistaken convict identity!One encounters evil, greedy people, the plotters, the sad widow, the politician who will change colours over the fortnight, and gentlemen and knaves, in each turn of the page.Suitable situations for reform of the frozen soul, which muses on its own folly and the terror in existing in penury in a world full of treachery, the rise of the human will to master its own shortcomings are portrayed with detail.Then follows the reformation that is complete when a child, his own blood,
takes the domain of his heart. His mind is so noble in the passing of the years that he even is ready to help his arch foe, the relentless inspector of police who is after him. This officer is so upright that he even petitions that he be punished for his wrongs!That is fiction just released for the next movie? Wrong. Set in post Napoleonic France, the gripping novel takes you vividly through the Laws, customs, and life of the people, and each character pops out with such characterization that one will be transported to the time when it is set, and no one will put down the book till he finishes it. The climax, when two people good and respectable in their own right, sacrifice themselves for their ideals is a classic ending.