A Young Inventor's Pluck; or, The Mystery of the Willington Legacy

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I'LL TRY MY BEST, REPLIED JACK, TAKING UP HIS KIT OF TOOLS.
A Young Inventor's Pluck
THE MYSTERY OF THE WILLINGTON LEGACY
BY Arthur M. Winfield,
Author of THE ROVER BOYS AT SCHOOL, THE MISSING TIN BOX, SCHOOLDAYS OF FRED HARLEY, etc.
NEW YORK -- AKRON, O. -- CHICAGO THE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING CO. 1901
COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY THE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING CO.
INTRODUCTION
My Dear Boys and Girls: --
A YOUNG INVENTOR'S PLUCK relates the adventures of a wide-awake American lad of a mechanical turn of mind, who suddenly finds himself thrown upon his own resources and compelled to support not only himself, but likewise his sister.
Jack Willington's path is no easy one to tread. The bank in which the sister and brother have their little store of money deposited fails, and with this comes the shutting down of the tool works in which our hero is employed. To add to the lad's troubles, there is a large fire in the town and the youth is accused of incendiarism.