Beadle's Half Dime Library, No. 466

1886 · 16 pages

This issue of *Beadle and Adams'* weekly (June 29, 1886) features the serial "Entombed Alive" by Charles Morris, author of several adventure stories. The narrative opens with Jeremiah Jarman, a resourceful but impoverished youth from New York City, sleeping roadside with only six cents and a button to his name. A well-dressed gentleman named Guilbert Morford, whose suspicious demeanor suggests hidden motives, awakens the boy and offers employment as a nurse to a sick man at three dollars weekly plus meals. Jerry accepts eagerly and is taken to Morford's mansion outside town. The story then shifts to a sickroom where an invalid lies gravely ill, tended by the mysterious Morford. The OCR quality degrades significantly after this point, but the narrative establishes a mystery: Morford's sinister intentions toward his new young employee remain unclear, hinting at potential entrapment or exploitation.

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