Mystery, betrayal, and murder are key ingredients in this early 20th-century love story set in rural New Brunswick. Novelist H. A. Cody has created a cast of sympathetic characters to tell the story of a pauper auction -- an extraordinary and authentically-described local custom where local residents bid against each other to earn money by taking in poverty-stricken orphans, seniors and others. In Cody’s novel, the auction has its ironic aftermath. Not only does the reader have an entertaining story to enjoy, but there is also a universal lesson to be learned. Under Sealed Orders is the latest addition to the Formac Fiction Treasures series. Under the overall editorial direction of Gwen Davies, the series now encompasses 32 novels by Canadian authors from the Maritime provinces published in the last decades of the 19th and the first decades of the 20th centuries. All titles in the series were bestsellers in their era, and many of the authors were successful enough to make writing their fulltime profession.

Excerpt from Sealed Orders The most I remember of our folks is what dreadful sav ing folks they were. And when Connecticut folks set out to save, it's a -savin' sight, I tell you, Tom. Sometimes I had a wonder how they ever could have done it if it had n't been for me. If father wanted to save seventy-five cents on a man's hire he put me at it, mowing, berrying, weeding, tending caows. I drove a plow before I was up to that little lad of Peterson's shoulders, that he brought down here last Christmas, maybe you remember. A likely lit tle lad. I was glad to know Peterson schooled him a little. I was glad to see him on a Christmas time. But when I patted his head he shied off. Children don't take to me. Maybe I don't understand their ways. I lived so different when I was a little child. I don't see a little chap brought up just as I was very often. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.