MY KINSMAN,MAJOR MOLINEUX by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

Published on Mar 19th at 9:00pm

A young man from the country travels to Boston (during the days when the British soldiers were housed there) seeking his relative Major Molineux, who had promised the young man a chance to rise up in the world should he ever travel there after his schooling.  The reception he receives with every inquiry is rude, even threatening, and he ventures to find out why.