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Jacob Marlowe's Secret. by Horatio Alger - book
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ILLUSTRATED Old Jacob Marlowe pretends to be poor to test the sincerity of his
relatives' devotion; his nephew Bert proves to be honest and trustworthy. Aka:
Uncle Jacob's Secret; or, The Boy Who Cleared His Father's Name.
Bert Barton, a boy of fifteen, lives in a small
Eastern village and supports his mother by working for $4 a week in a shoe
factory owned by his disagreeable rich relative, Squire Marlowe. Nobody knows
where the squire got the capital to start up the factory. Bert believed his
father, Simeon, was dead when in fact he was in exile, falsely accused ten
years earlier, of having stolen government bonds. Jacob Marlowe, the
uncle of Bert's mother and Squire Marlowe’s wife, visits after an absence of
twenty years. Squire Marlowe rejects him, but Bert and his mother welcome him.
Shortly thereafter, Squire Marlow fires Bert, and Bert's father returns. Uncle
Jacob invites Bert to New York and Chicago in a desperate attempt to help
clear his father’s name.
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