When the President elect of the Bureau of Advanced Science, Dr. Mark Haslam, encounters Esau Jones, he's astonished to learn that Jones can perform apparent miracles. Yet, despite his amazing gifts, Jones is content to remain anonymous, living the life of a country rustic. Haslam, however, persuades Jones to leave his preferred anonymity and rural life, to demonstrate his powers before the Bureau of Advanced Science in London. But there he makes a very dangerous enemy of Dr. Carfax...