![]() However, soon after the wedding, Tobias gets a nasty shock when he discovers Joanna's childhood cradle-because he carved it himself for his daughter. When Tobias suggests that he and Joanna should get married, the desperate girl feels she has no choice but to agree. She is rescued by a middle-aged sea captain, Tobias Darsham, who is making a pilgrimage to visit his wife's grave. The Rushmores never tell their adopted daughter the truth about her origins, but on the death of Joseph and his wife, when the girl, Joanna, is 16, she finds herself at the mercy of her abusive and violent Rushmore cousins. What it brings instead is a baby in a cradle. ![]() When a ship is wrecked in a storm off the Portland coast, a taciturn stonecutter by the name of Joseph Rushmore sends his rescue dog to haul in plunder. ![]()
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