{"product_id":"2940013354548","title":"ADRIFT IN NEW YORK","description":"Chapter I.\u003cbr\u003eThe Missing Heir.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Uncle, you are not looking well to-night.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I'm not well, Florence. I sometimes doubt if I shall ever be any\u003cbr\u003ebetter.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Surely, uncle, you cannot mean----\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Yes, my child, I have reason to believe that I am nearing the end.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I cannot bear to hear you speak so, uncle,\" said Florence Linden, in\u003cbr\u003eirrepressible agitation. \"You are not an old man. You are but\u003cbr\u003efifty-four.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"True, Florence, but it is not years only that make a man old. Two\u003cbr\u003egreat sorrows have embittered my life. First, the death of my dearly\u003cbr\u003ebeloved wife, and next, the loss of my boy, Harvey.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It is long since I have heard you refer to my cousin's loss. I\u003cbr\u003ethought you had become reconciled--no, I do not mean that,--I thought\u003cbr\u003eyour regret might be less poignant.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I have not permitted myself to speak of it, but I have never ceased\u003cbr\u003eto think of it day and night.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Linden paused sadly, then resumed:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"If he had died, I might, as you say, have become reconciled; but he\u003cbr\u003ewas abducted at the age of four by a revengeful servant whom I had\u003cbr\u003edischarged from my employment. Heaven knows whether he is living or\u003cbr\u003edead, but it is impressed upon my mind that he still lives, it may be\u003cbr\u003ein misery, it may be as a criminal, while I, his unhappy father, live\u003cbr\u003eon in luxury which I cannot enjoy, with no one to care for me----\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFlorence Linden sank impulsively on her knees beside her uncle's\u003cbr\u003echair.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Don't say that, uncle,\" she pleaded. \"You know that I love you, Uncle\u003cbr\u003eJohn.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"And I, too, uncle.\"","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069968531696,"sku":"2940013354548","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013354548_p0.jpg?v=1763580292","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013354548","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}