Excerpt from Looking for Mary Jane Gus Merrifield's father, a millionaire, wants his son to pay an old debt of gratitude by marrying Mary Jane Crabbe, daughter of a former partner. Gus is traveling with two friends, Berkeley (Berk) and Charles. A handsome young opera star, "Carlita" has induced Berk to help her smuggle a Chinaman into the United States in a trunk. Gus receives his father's peremptory order to find Mary Jane at Mrs. Wentworth's boardinghouse and marry her. The three friends find there is a Mary Jane in the house, known however as Marie Varney, a young widow. The boys are hard up. They fix up a plan to have Berk get engaged to Marie under Gus's name, hoping she will break the engagement when she finds the deception. But through Pauline, Mrs. Wentworth's niece, Marie discovers the scheme, and to punish the boys becomes engaged to all three of them. Then the trunk supposed to contain the Chinaman arrives. The boys are afraid of the police. A real Chinaman, "Carlita's" jealous husband, and a smallpox scare add other complications. Berk and Gus have really fallen in love, but the girls won't look at them. Gus's father arrives to find things badly mixed. But it turns out that "Carlita" is the real Mary Jane, that there was no smuggled Chinaman and no smallpox, and the boys are forgiven and happy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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This is the first comprehensive biography of 19th century physician, writer, feminist, progressive reformer and lecturer Dr. Mary Jane Safford whose extraordinarily adventurous life included an uncanny ability to experience and make history. Presented in a tapestry of 19th century historical context with the author's usual wit. Over 70 images.

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