Marie L. Day

À la mort de leur mère adoptive, deux orphelins Timothy et Lady Gay quittent les faubourgs pour échapper à l'orphelinat. Ils sautent dans un wagon en direction du Maine, et errent sur les routes américaines, en quête d’un foyer plus paisible et plus accueillant…

Howard Spurlock, wrongfully accused of theft, believes police are seeking his arrest. On "the ragged edge," he takes refuge in China, where he meets and is nursed back to health by Ruth Endicott, daughter of a missionary. They marry and go to an island in the South Seas where, later, his innocence is proved.