Ben Retallick

In the thin mines of Cornwall during the first decades of the nineteeth century death is the constant companion of the working man. <strong>Ben Retallick</stron... » 

In the thin mines of Cornwall during the first decades of the nineteeth century death is the constant companion of the working man. Ben Retallick has grown to sturdy manhood among the miners and fisherfolk through the hard and hungry years when blood was often the price of bread. But when cruel fate steals away Jessie his darkeyed love Ben searches the hiring fairs to find her again knowing nothing of her parentage and caring only for the day hell make her his wife... «