Three People by Isabella Alden (Paperback)
They were unlikely companions, the pampered Pliny Hastings, solidly brought-up Benny Phillips, and uneducated street scamp "Tode" Mall... ... Not much chance, under ordinary circumstances, that they would ever meet. But God's plans are never ordinary, and the greatest miracles need only the seed of a tiny prayer to bring them to fruition. Thus it was one day in the repulsive rubbish heap of humanity known as "Five Points" that a dying mother showed her ragged, neglected boy the only kindness he would ever know from her when she prayed, "O Lord, don't ever let Tode drop a touch of rum!"
And so that one small desperate prayer went forth, setting in motion the beginnings of hope--and stirring in little Tode, a determination so great that it transformed not only his life, but also the lives of the astonishingly different people whom he came to know, protect ...and love.
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