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*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. "Adrift in New York" involves the disappearance of a son from the household of his wealthy father, John Linden. The boy has been kidnapped by the villainous Curtis Waring, John Linden's nephew, who hopes to inherit the family fortune. Grown up, the youngster lives a precarious life on the streets of New York. When Linden's ward Florence rejects the unwanted attentions of Waring, she is disinherited, forced to live in a tenement and work in a sweatshop . . . until it is discovered that the young man who befriends her is, in reality, Linden's long-lost son.

Uncle, you are not looking well to-night.”“I’m not well, Florence. I sometimes doubt if I shall ever be any better.”“Surely, uncle, you cannot mean——”“Yes, my child, I have reason to believe that I am nearing the end.”“I cannot bear to hear you speak so, uncle,” said Florence Linden, in irrepressible agitation. “You are not an old man. You are but fifty-four.”“True, Florence, but it is not years only that make a man old. Two great sorrows have embittered my life. First, the death of my dearly beloved wife, and next, the loss of my boy, Harvey.”“It is long since I have heard you refer to my cousin’s loss. I thought you had become reconciled—no, I do not mean that,—I thought your regret might be less poignant.”“I have not permitted myself to speak of it, but I have never ceased to think of it day and night.”John Linden paused sadly, then resumed:“If he had died, I might, as you say, have become reconciled; but he was abducted at the age of four by a revengeful servant whom I had discharged from my employment. Heaven knows whether he is living or dead, but it is impressed upon my mind that he still lives, it may be in misery, it may be as a criminal, while I, his unhappy father, live on in luxury which I cannot enjoy, with no one to care for me——”Florence Linden sank impulsively on her knees beside her uncle’s chair.“Don’t say that, uncle,” she pleaded. “You know that I love you, Uncle John.”“And I, too, uncle.”There was a shade of jealousy in the voice of Curtis Waring as he entered the library through the open door, and approaching his uncle, pressed his hand.He was a tall, dark-complexioned man, of perhaps thirty-five, with shifty, black eyes and thin lips, shaded by a dark mustache. It was not a face to trust.Even when he smiled the expression of his face did not soften. Yet he could moderate his voice so as to express tenderness and sympathy.

Horatio Alger was a man who lived with a terrible secret -- a secret dark and troubling -- something shameful, in fact. As a young man, that secret took hold of his life, and he left the life and the life's work he had made for himself in Boston, to take up residence among the poor in New York City. Ensconced there, he worked among the poor -- and took to writing tales of their success. His novels captured the imagination of a nation bursting with a new wave of immigrants who'd come to our shores -- come to the very port of New York City that was Alger's new home. He used the wealth that came to him to help the poor folks who he loved, and took his secret to the grave. It escaped from there, of course. You can find it if you look a bit. But for the purpose of this fine novel of the rise to riches, it will remain unstated . . .

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Who deserve to inherit John Linden wealth when he dies? Will it be his nephew, Curtis Waring, his niece Florence Linden, and his long-lost son – if he ever still alive. John wants Florence and Curtis get married and make it one of the condition if Florence ever wants to have any of the property.A boy named Dodger was sent to steal John Linden wills so that Curtis would inherit all the property. In the nicks of time, Florence prevents Dodger from stealing, and surprisingly they become good friends… What make it more dramatic, she decides to leave her uncle’s house with Dodger to avoid marrying Curtis. And what then? Would she be able to survive in different world and being poor? Will she able to turnaround her fortune? Adrift in New York?