Freaks of Fortune; Or, Half Round the World
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    Freaks of Fortune; Or, Half Round the World
                                            
                            By Oliver Optic
                            
                                16 Nov, 2019                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        The author is not disposed to apologize for the "exciting" element--as some have been pleased to denominate it--of this and others of his stories. If goodness and truth have been cast down, if vice and sin have been raised up, in the story, an explan
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                                                The author is not disposed to apologize for the "exciting" element--as some have been pleased to denominate it--of this and others of his stories. If goodness and truth have been cast down, if vice and sin have been raised up, in the story, an explanation would not, and ought not to, atone for the crime. The writer degrades no saints, he canonizes no villains.  Less