The story is set in the area around Philadelphia in 1876, a few weeks prior to the opening of the Centennial Exposition. Vesper lives at Strafford Mansion outside Philadelphia with her guardians, Professor Brinton Garrett and his wife Mary. The household includes Smiler and Slider, twins met in earlier adventures, and Tobias "The Weed" Passavant, a young man of about twenty-four who is in residence studying the research of the late Dr.
Holly, Vesper's father.
The group is visited by President Grant who has a dilemma with which only Vesper can assist him. Children in care of the emperor of Brazil, who has come to Philadelphia for the opening of the centennial, have been.....
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