Rodney Ropes is comfortably settled at boarding school until word comes that his guardian has made off with his inheritance. Penniless, he heads for New York, finds a bed at the Newsboys’ Lodging House and a job in a store, and then has to fight a charge of theft planted by a jealous rival.
It shows Alger’s rags-to-respectability formula at full strength, with a city full of schemers and good Samaritans. Download the free EPUB.