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When Atar-Gull's father is wrongfully executed by Tom Wil, his English owner, he vows revenge. He insinuates himself into the good graces of Wil and his family by assiduous and obsequious services and with the aid of the ferocious Jamaican Maroons ruins Wil's crops, has his stock killed, orchestrates his daughter's death from snakebite (which results in his wife's demise from grief). Accompanying Wil to Europe after his financial ruin, Atar Gull completes his revenge.