The defendant wants to make a statement about the death of the fortune-teller Madam Philomel. Frederick Hippy who is an inventor wants to make a confession that he is a man who hated his step daughter with a burning passion and to make her life suffer was his one consuming ambition. Now she is out of his reach and here he tells how he is the guilty one and not her scrawny lover Solen…

Author: Algernon Blackwood