"Gladstone Belle, a man with a high position in island politics, is found hanging from the rafters of his home, which triggers gossip about his lief and tragic end. Did he kill himself in remorse for the wrongs, civil and social, he had committed or out of realization that his wife wa unfaithful? Or was he killed? A local schoolteacher, and the widow's lover, is the primary narrator of the life and times of this complicated man. From diaries reluctantly accepted from Gladstone's father, the narrator learns the deceased man's priv