Life is tough for Ella Bancroft. After her father, Thomas, is wheelchair-bound by an accident at the tube works, the responsibility
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Young Frederick Musgrave was never more agile than when navigating his sculler across the waters of the Tyne between the busy seaports of North & South Shields in 1843. Already his services were in demand as a carrier of messages & certain small packages for those whose activities made them the target of the Customs & Excise men. As well as agile, Freddie was also reckoned to be lucky, but on such a night as brought him to The Towers, the home of Mr Roderick Gallagher, both luck & courage were to be tested to the limit. From that night on, things really began to happen to Freddie, & the best of them came when he gained the friendship & patronage of Miss Maggie Hewitt, who was to play a major role in shaping his life & fortunes. But he would still need all his luck & resourcefulness to escape the long shadow cast by Roderick Gallagher, whose power & influence threatened all who crossed his path