Harper's Young People
It was a warm June evening, and the family was taking the air on the back porch--father and mother, two stalwart young men, the elder sons, two slender girls, and a romping boy of nine--the little Benjamin of the tribe. It was a placid homelike group; father deep in the daily...
They were just arriving at Brenton. Many inquiring eyes had been turned towards them in the train, for every one knew John Franklin, and every one surmised at once that this was...
1. CHAPTER I.It was a warm June evening, and the family was taking the air on the back porch--father and mother, two stalwart young men, the elder sons, two slender girls, and a romping boy...