To the Healing of the Sea

A novel telling concurrent stories of Christian and financial salvation, the former taking place during a trans-Atlantic cruise where the hero finds romantic love and love of God at the same time; and the latter taking place back home on Wall Street where his best friend arranges a thoroughly fascinating stock market scheme that rescues the hero’s reputation and brokerage firm, while wreaking terrible revenge on his villainous enemy—the fascination of the detailed scheme at least partly arising from the fact that it would quickly land its overseer in prison if perpetrated today.

To the Healing of the Sea was originally published in 1900 under the name Francis H. Hardy, a pen name for Edward James Cattell, author of this novel and the novel The Mills of God.

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