The Portent & Other Stories
Publisher Description
A collection of MacDonalds short stories. This story is typical of Macdonald where the hero has to struggle to fulfill his destiny. This is the story of a daring college student's quest to win the icy heart of a beautiful girl. Unfortunately, the girl is the daughter of a cunning and sadistic master artist, who takes the student as an apprentice with the express intent of torturing the youth with his own hopeless love.