Horace French
An unpleasant youth, who is adopted by Cooley Paradene in Bill the Conqueror on the advice of Professor Appleby, but who is soon revealed to be a member of a devious criminal gang. A little too fond of food for the tastes of his fellow-criminals, he resents being taught lessons, but when his schemes are discovered by his adopted parent his future is mapped out as one learning experience after another.
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