The morning of his eighteen birthday Westinghouse Patent Pend. Ainstrutherhears his Ma say Wes break a leg. He realizes it is carnie talk telling himto leave th... » 

The morning of his eighteen birthday Westinghouse Patent Pend. Ainstrutherhears his Ma say Wes break a leg. He realizes it is carnie talk telling himto leave the desolate homestead to go out in the world to make his fortune andsend it back that the other eight kids ration of corn meal mush and goatsmilk not be permanently interrupted. Unschooled he is well read from his UncleAbernathy an English Remittance Mans library. He is then a Victorian mindedAmerican youth dropped into the bucolic glitz of San Diego CA of the Thirties.His first acquaintance is Alyse rambunctious daughter of an oil tycoon.Smitten she offers to help his quest but her mind is more on long white dressesand bridal bouquets. At Alyses admission of her love of antiques they mine thedefunct Ensenada Hotel once a posh beanery of its furnishings as items tosell on Antique Row in San Diego. They are astonished to find in the variousarmoires exotic birds and reptiles being smuggled in for the San Diego Zoo andfinally a defunct Mafia gunman. They over come to make it in Wes own wordsA typical American Horatio Aglae sic Success story. «