Fortune

Smiling Jimmy, a young sailor who has just arrived in England from a voyage on the South Seas, stumbles into a harbor canteen where he hopes to have his hungry stomach filled with homemade food. Instead, he gets into a fight with thirty patrons, and meets a beautiful young lady in dire need. The distressed Miss O'Neal clings to Jimmy, who promises to escort her to Africa to find her inheritance-a hidden oil field. Traveling along are the canteen's owner, and the hope for better future the trust of thirty patrons, the disadvantaged people of the harbor. Crossing France is an adventure itself, mostly because the diversified transportation they're forced to use. As they travel from Algiers to the South Sahara, they are forced to fight gangsters, spies, and even the French Foreign legion. Miss O'Neal and Smiling Jimmy arrive to Ohkmar Oasis, and learn the truth about her inheritance. Half year later Jimmy discovers the real truth, and on the end everything is fine. The girl has her inheritance and the hero gets the girl. The Fortune is a chock-full of adventure with unpredictable twists, and characters you have to love. They are down on their luck, but always maintain good manners. aft