Almost functions like an incredibly charming "mini - Around the world in 80 days"!..And somewhat of an unusual departure for its mystery-writing author Isabel Ostrander; this is the tale of how rich New Yorker Jim Abbott, following a bet, and teenage runaway Lou, come together by chance, as a daring pair of travelers in rural America. The bet is to travel with no money all the way from Buffalo to New York City. Needless to say, the voyage in question is filled with incidents and challenges... (Published in 1920)