SIDE ONE
John's reflection on his boyhood , his introduction to Miss Keyes and the glen , his restlessnessand his struggles with his family,finally successfull,to join the navy.This was the happiest period of his life. All looked set fair for a career until he was stricken with sickness and invalided out of his chosen niche in life.Reluctantly and unhappily he returned to a number of menial occupations and finally returned to the services of Miss Keyes.Tradgedy now strikes hard.The worlds imagination is caught by the brutal senselessness of the apparent criminal who slays his kind old mistress.
SIDE TWO
John was hardly more than a bewildered observer at his own trial,not being able to say more than a few words. The tides of fate wash him to the condemned cell where he waits three sad weeks for his last night. When it comes he can not sleep , but when he does , a strange prophetic dream comes to him and helps him to bear the strain of the next day's ordeal as scaffold and it's crew try in vain three times to take his life.