Errand Boy,
The or, How Phil Brent Won Success. by Horatio Alger - book
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ILLUSTRATED Told by his mean
stepmother that he was a foundling, Phil Brent travels to New York and takes a
job as assistant to a popular entertainer.
Philip Brent, lives with his stepmother, Mrs.
Brent, and her son Jonas, in the town of Plankton. The stepmother reveals to
Philip that he is not Mr. Brent's real son, but had been left with Mr. Brent,
in Cincinnati, by a mysterious stranger. Greatly disturbed by these
revelations, and not wishing to accept charity, Philip decides to leave and
seek his fortune in New York. In the meantime, the real father of
Philip, Oscar Granville, now rich and in different circumstances than he had
been thirteen years earlier when he had left Philip in Cincinnati, contacts
Mrs. Brent regarding his son. Mrs. Brent artfully pawns off her son, Jonas, as
Philip. Mr. Granville, suspecting nothing, takes them to Chicago where they
live with him in luxury. Philip must figure out what is going on for
himself and correct it all, before Mrs. Brent gets away with her plan.
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