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PREFACE
CHAPTER I A REVELATION
CHAPTER II MRS. FOWLER'S STORY
CHAPTER III LEFT ALONE
CHAPTER IV THE TOWN AUTOCRAT
CHAPTER V A LITTLE MISUNDERSTANDING
CHAPTER VI FRANK GETS A PLACE
CHAPTER VII THE CASH BOY HAS AN ADVENTURE
CHAPTER VIII AN UNEXPECTED ENGAGEMENT
CHAPTER IX THE HOUSEKEEPER'S NEPHEW
CHAPTER X THE HOUSEKEEPER SCHEMING
CHAPTER XI JOHN WADE
CHAPTER XII A FALSE FRIEND
CHAPTER XIII THE SPIDER AND THE FLY
CHAPTER XIV SPRINGING THE TRAP
CHAPTER XV FROM BAD TO WORSE
CHAPTER XVI AN ACCOMPLICE FOUND
CHAPTER XVII FRANK AND HIS JAILER
CHAPTER XVIII "OVER THE HILL TO THE POORHOUSE"
CHAPTER XIX WHAT FRANK HEARD THROUGH THE CREVICE
CHAPTER XX THE ESCAPE
CHAPTER XXI JOHN WADE'S DISAPPOINTMENT
CHAPTER XXII CONCLUSION
CHAPTER I A REVELATION
CHAPTER II MRS. FOWLER'S STORY
CHAPTER III LEFT ALONE
CHAPTER IV THE TOWN AUTOCRAT
CHAPTER V A LITTLE MISUNDERSTANDING
CHAPTER VI FRANK GETS A PLACE
CHAPTER VII THE CASH BOY HAS AN ADVENTURE
CHAPTER VIII AN UNEXPECTED ENGAGEMENT
CHAPTER IX THE HOUSEKEEPER'S NEPHEW
CHAPTER X THE HOUSEKEEPER SCHEMING
CHAPTER XI JOHN WADE
CHAPTER XII A FALSE FRIEND
CHAPTER XIII THE SPIDER AND THE FLY
CHAPTER XIV SPRINGING THE TRAP
CHAPTER XV FROM BAD TO WORSE
CHAPTER XVI AN ACCOMPLICE FOUND
CHAPTER XVII FRANK AND HIS JAILER
CHAPTER XVIII "OVER THE HILL TO THE POORHOUSE"
CHAPTER XIX WHAT FRANK HEARD THROUGH THE CREVICE
CHAPTER XX THE ESCAPE
CHAPTER XXI JOHN WADE'S DISAPPOINTMENT
CHAPTER XXII CONCLUSION
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About the author
Horatio Alger Jr. (January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899) was a prolific 19th-century American author, best known for his many young-adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty. His writings were characterized by the "rags-to-riches" narrative, which had a formative effect on America during the Gilded Age.
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