Now he is home after ten years for a visit. Make it he did, thanks to his facility with languages and business savvy. Soon he has a new dilemma: now that he has met Mary Ann Poole, does he really want to go sailing again?Faithfully Yours: John McPherson left Dumfries, Scotland, as an impoverished, neglected boy, determined to make his fortune in North America. Poole’s welfare is just the right charitable Christmas project to banish boredom while he searches for a way to return to sea. Thomas takes an immediate interest in the pretty widow and her bright daughter. Unable to afford return postage, the Pooles pay a visit to the sender, Thomas Jenkins, a retired sailing master in nearby Plymouth who is bored by life ashore. As a future in the poorhouse looms, she receives a package that was misdirected from the post office. Poole seven years earlier, and never knew her father. Her daughter Beth was born shortly after the death in battle of Lt.
The Lasting Gift: Christmas approaches, and Mary Ann Poole has little to anticipate.
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