All Aboard

“Two of ’em, and as putty as twin blooms on a stalk,” Debby tells a caller—just before the girls burst in, identical in face but worlds apart in spirit. With their voyage only a day away, even the land-loving Debby may have to say goodbye from shore.

In this late-nineteenth-century tale, Faith and Hope are leaving the home that has sheltered them since infancy to sail with their father, Captain Hosmer, aboard the steamship International. Hope meets the coming voyage with bright impatience; Faith is quieter, watching Debby’s farewells with a tender reserve. Their father is taking them on a long journey to India, but adventure means leaving behind the woman who has mothered them—and the familiar rooms that have always been their refuge. As the ship waits to carry them out to sea, what will the twins find beyond home?

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