Helen Ford by Horatio Alger - book 
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PAPERBACK ILLUSTRATED Cheated out of an inheritance, Helen tries to support her sickly father as an actress on the New York stage. Aka: A Child of Fortune.


Helen Ford works as a seamstress to support her father, Robert a dreamer intent on inventing a flying machine.
Although both Robert’s repentant, rich father and Robert himself lived in New York, they are kept apart by Mr. Rand's deceitful nephew, Lewis Rand, who aspires to inherit the Rand fortune.
Through the help of Mr. Sharp, an able lawyer, Mr. Rand and his son are finally united only minutes before Mr. Rand dies. Mr. Rand's will leaves his entire estate to his nephew, Lewis Rand. It is up to Mr. Sharp to determine the validity of the will and help the kind Ford family.