Robert Rushton supports his mother by working in the Millville factory and clashes with the snobbish Halbert Davis at a travelling penmanship school. When he loses his job after a matter of a special deposit and a troubled conscience, he follows a strange clue that his long-lost sea-captain father may still be alive, which carries him across the ocean to India.
Alger’s rags-to-respectability formula with more sea adventure than usual. Download the free EPUB.