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Cast Upon the Breakers

Chapter 5 A YOUNG FINANCIAL WRECK.

Word Count: 1576    |    Released on: 28/11/2017

unate in recovering your

u," replied Rod

I have rendered you a

good a friend. I hope you will let

erruption of our journey won't

r they reach

in Woods, who by this time had become q

e may give me some advice as to what I do.

Fourteenth Street where you can be accommodated with lodging and two mea

nt, at least. I haven't much money, and mus

room together. That will give us a larger apartment. Mrs. Mar

ding house, and fortunately found a good room vacant on the third floor. Mr. Woods wen

odney consulted his companion as t

aise money on it?

do this unless

ea as to the val

N

mine, who will appraise them. Afterwards I advise you to deposit th

o as you

odney followed Mr. Woods into a store about midway between Broadway and Nass

d. "Do you wish to buy a diamond

you appraise some jewelry belo

nd the jeweler examined

y," he said. "Does you

sent," answ

will treat you fairly. You wish

r, if yo

me perhaps fif

the back part of the

rter of an hou

es," he said, "but I value the jewe

ooked su

nk it so valu

o much, but if you wish to dispose of it I

ide to sell I will c

vise you on the whole to sto

storage in advance?"

ewels will be a sufficient guara

lry store on the corner of Fifteenth Street and

Your friend of the train will find it difficult to get hold of the jewels. Now I sh

f his late guardian, Benjamin Fielding

g paper. Almost the first article he glanced at prov

ED TO

d that he had left the city, but where he has gone is unknown. It is believed that he is very deeply involved, and seeing no way out of his embarrassment ha

do all in his power to make them good. No one doubts Mr. Fielding's integrity, and regrets are expressed that he did not remain in the city and help unravel the tangle in which his affairs a

ght Rodney. "I am thrown upon my own resources, and m

he left the car he soiled his shoes with th

g Arab, glancing with a business

last, as for the opportunity of questioning the free and independent young ci

ked Rodney. "It ought to be wit

ioner is in league together. H

m a commission?" a

ficial secrets. It

an origin

you ain't call

ying you a complimen

e Fl

you liv

he Lo

mean at the New

es

you have to

', and six cents for

six cents

in' to live there,

know-I ma

re jo

you think

a swell. Look

o be sure, but I haven't much mon

asked Mike i

to do, and I am

gh to buy a box and brush

would spoil my clothes, and I am afraid I

it at home-the one

her, Mike? How does it happen that

ied a man wot ain't no good. He'd bate me t

s your mot

Alba

ey enough you can ask her to

take women a

not," said Ro

irls by her new husband, and sh

ine was completed,

the Lodge, I'll ask

o you li

th Street, but I can't afford to stay th

st me, and make me a financi

e and get reduced to blacking

Wall Street," answered Mike.

w he has added yo

hit it

Mike, I'll see yo

in my office a

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Cast Upon the Breakers
Cast Upon the Breakers
“A short story, set in the USA. A young man in a private school learns that his guardian has lost his inheritance in some poor business dealing; as a result, there is no money left and he must leave the school to make his own way in the world. The story follows his adventures as he escapes being cheated, but is then accused of theft for which another is guilty. Of course, he lands on his feet and builds himself a circle of friends and makes his fortune.”
1 Chapter 1 A FAITHLESS GUARDIAN.2 Chapter 2 THE CASKET OF JEWELS.3 Chapter 3 A STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE.4 Chapter 4 IN PURSUIT OF A THIEF.5 Chapter 5 A YOUNG FINANCIAL WRECK.6 Chapter 6 AN IMPUDENT ADVENTURER.7 Chapter 7 AT THE NEWSBOY'S LODGING HOUSE.8 Chapter 8 RODNEY FINDS A PLACE.9 Chapter 9 THE FIRST DAY AT WORK.10 Chapter 10 MIKE PUTS ON A UNIFORM.11 Chapter 11 MISSING GOODS.12 Chapter 12 WHAT WAS FOUND IN RODNEY'S ROOM.13 Chapter 13 CHARGED WITH THEFT.14 Chapter 14 RODNEY IS DISCHARGED.15 Chapter 15 A RICH FIND.16 Chapter 16 A SURPRISING TURN OF FORTUNE.17 Chapter 17 JASPER'S PERPLEXITY.18 Chapter 18 RODNEY'S SECRET IS DISCOVERED.19 Chapter 19 JASPER'S REVENGE20 Chapter 20 RODNEY LOSES HIS PUPIL.21 Chapter 21 CONTINUED ILL LUCK.22 Chapter 22 AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE TURNS UP.23 Chapter 23 MR. WHEELER HAS A SET BACK.24 Chapter 24 A CHANGE OF SCENE.25 Chapter 25 JEFFERSON PETTIGREW'S HOME.26 Chapter 26 THE BOY CAPITALIST.27 Chapter 27 THE FAILURE OF SQUIRE SHELDON'S PLOT.28 Chapter 28 A MINISTER'S GOOD FORTUNE.29 Chapter 29 A MINING TOWN IN MONTANA.30 Chapter 30 THE MYSTERIOUS ROBBERY.31 Chapter 31 MR. WHEELER EXPLAINS.32 Chapter 32 RODNEY FALLS INTO A TRAP.33 Chapter 33 UNDERGROUND.34 Chapter 34 RODNEY'S DISCOVERY.35 Chapter 35 A BLOODY CONFLICT.36 Chapter 36 THE RODNEY MINE.37 Chapter 37 CONCLUSION.