A coming of age novel set in a tough neighborhood near the Philadelphia docks where a much loved and admired physician raises his own rebellious son and also adopts two waifs to help him ward off the many mature women who would like to marry him. It turns our that this saintly doctor also has his sinister side and dark secrets which come to light in a shattering finale.
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