'Missing Friends' Is Today's Free eBook Of The Day

This adventure novel, originally published in 1871, is one Danish immigrant’s tale of a new life abroad, during the late eighteen hundreds. Here is an excerpt: “I dared not to stay in Copenhagen for fear of meeting my father, or somebody who knew me, so I bought a through ticket for Hamburg the same day, and although the purchase of this ticket nearly exhausted my funds, it was with a feeling of glorious freedom that I left Copenhagen.