The Just Steward: A Trust Kept Across Eighteen Centuries
Richard Dehan
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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In Alexandria under Diocletian, the Roman official Philoremus Fabius confesses himself a Christian and leaves his small son, with the vineyards of Kir Saba that are the boy's inheritance, in the care of Hazaël, a Jewish merchant of Joppa. Eighteen centuries later Hazaël's descendant John Hazel is still keeping the accounts, and in wartime England he brings the old parchments to Katharine Forbis, whose brother Julian, a Catholic chaplain, has been reported killed at Gallipoli. Richard Dehan was the pen name of Clotilde Graves, whose Boer War novel The Dop Doctor had been one of the great bestsellers of 1910; in a prefatory note she says that only one character here is real, the prison-camp commandant Hamid Bey. Fifty-nine plates of Victorian and Edwardian painting, among them Dublin street scenes by Walter Osborne and portraits by John Evan Hodgson, echo the novel's passage from the Levant to wartime Britain.
In Alexandria under Diocletian, the Roman official Philoremus Fabius confesses himself a Christian and leaves his small son, with the vineyards of Kir Saba that are the boy's inheritance, in the care of Hazaël, a Jewish merchant of Joppa. Eighteen centuries later Hazaël's descendant John Hazel is...
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Richard Dehan (1863-1932) was the pen name of Clotilde Graves, an Irish novelist and playwright born in County Cork. She wrote for the London stage under her own name and adopted a male pen name for her fiction; her Boer War novel The Dop Doctor was a huge best seller and was banned by some libraries. Her works include The Dop Doctor, The Just Steward, and The Man of Iron.
Richard Dehan (1863-1932) was the pen name of Clotilde Graves, an Irish novelist and playwright born in County Cork. She wrote for the London stage under her own name and adopted a male pen name for her fiction; her Boer War novel The Dop Doctor was a huge best seller and was banned by some libra...
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