Publisher's Synopsis
Frances Hodgson Burnett, one of the early and most famous of women writers for children and adults, tells of Anthony Dart, ready to end his beggar days with a gun to his head. On the way to his place of demise, he threw a coin to a girl street urchin. She demanded to take him for a cup of coffee, where a thief grabbed the coin from her. Anthony chased the theif and found a reason to live. But there was much more to do.
