Part Two: I, The Daugther of Minos and Pasiphaë and II, The Solemn Pact Summary

In The Daughter of Minos and Pasiphaë, Ti Noël goes to the Cap to pick up harnesses. The city has grown, and there is a new theater. Henri Christophe is a free black man, a chef who has just bought the hotel where he is head chef, Auberge de la Couronne. He is famed for his cooking. M. Lenormand de Mézy's second wife has died, and the plantation owner frequents the theater and takes up with one of the bit players. He leaves with her for Paris, but then he finds himself missing his plantation. He returns with the actress, who has failed in Paris.

Twenty years have passed since Mecandal's capture. The plantation master...