The story opens with Count Gaston seen on the deck of a boat as a deckhand. Before him passes the vision of his early infatuation for an actress who prompted him to leave his wife and child ... Read allThe story opens with Count Gaston seen on the deck of a boat as a deckhand. Before him passes the vision of his early infatuation for an actress who prompted him to leave his wife and child and follow her to America. She eventually leaves him for another and he returns to his nat... Read allThe story opens with Count Gaston seen on the deck of a boat as a deckhand. Before him passes the vision of his early infatuation for an actress who prompted him to leave his wife and child and follow her to America. She eventually leaves him for another and he returns to his native land and sinks to the lowest rungs of depravity, in which condition he is found by a f... Read all