On the vexed Bermoothes, as Trollope calls them, convicts toil on the islands’ works. One of them, Aaron Trow, breaks out and comes to a lonely cottage where Anne Bradley is alone, and a fierce struggle follows; her betrothed then joins the hunt for the fugitive across the rocks and sea.
A dark, unusually violent short story from the great Victorian novelist, set in a place he knew. Download the free EPUB.