I Can Stand This Strain No Longer

Helen stoner is a widow living with her stepfather on the western border of surrey. Her family was once among the richest in england, but four successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition. The last squire dragged out his existence there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper. His only son, seeing that he must adapt himself to the conditions, obtained a degree from a relative which enabled him to take up medical practice. He has now established a large practice at Calcutta where,. by his skill and force of character, he can make a good profit. But i have heard, mister holmes, that you can see deeply into