Facing the World

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Alger Horatio Jr.. Facing the World

PREFACE

CHAPTER I. HARRY RECEIVES A LETTER

CHAPTER II. THE DANGER SIGNAL

CHAPTER III. HARRY DISAGREES WITH HIS GUARDIAN

CHAPTER IV. MRS. FOX COMES TO GRIEF

CHAPTER V. MR. FOX LEARNS HARRY’S SECRET

CHAPTER VI. AN EXCITING CHASE

CHAPTER VII. A NEW ENGAGEMENT

CHAPTER VIII. A LIBERAL OFFER

CHAPTER IX. THE PASSENGERS

CHAPTER X. THE YOUNG SAILOR

CHAPTER XI. A SENSATIONAL SCENE

CHAPTER XII. A STORM

CHAPTER XIII “WHO WILL STAY?”

CHAPTER XIV. THE WRECK OF THE NANTUCKET

CHAPTER XV. THE LAST OF THE “NANTUCKET”

CHAPTER XVI. CONCLUSION

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“Here’s a letter for you, Harry,” said George Howard. “I was passing the hotel on my way home from school when Abner Potts called out to me from the piazza, and asked me to bring it.”

The speaker was a bright, round-faced boy of ten. The boy whom he addressed was five or six years older. Only a week previous he had lost his father, and as the family consisted only of these two, he was left, so far as near relatives were concerned, alone in the world.

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Harry was left with his hands full of money, hardly knowing whether he was awake or dreaming.

One thing seemed to him only fair—to give the owner of the tablecloth some small share of the money, as an acknowledgment for the use of her property.

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