Summary
In the mist-shrouded periphery of Southport, Captain Duncan McTeague, a man whose soul has been weathered by the relentless brine of the Atlantic, stumbles upon an infant abandoned amidst the detritus of the docks. This foundling, a silent witness to some unspoken tragedy, carries upon his person a singular, cryptic heirloom: a half-dollar bill, severed with surgical intent, accompanied by a desperate missive from a mother promising a future reclamation. McTeague, eschewing the hardened cynicism of his trade, adopts the child, weaving the boy into the very fabric of his maritime existence. Four years of domestic equilibrium are shattered when the Captain’s disgruntled former mate, Martin Webber—a man consumed by the corrosive acid of professional spite—abducts the lad as a gambit for vengeance. The ensuing drama is not merely a chase across the salt-sprayed horizon but a profound intersection of fates where the missing piece of the currency returns in the hands of a grieving woman, leading to a violent catharsis and the eventual reconstitution of a fractured family unit.
Synopsis
Captain Duncan McTeague, ashore in Southport, finds a deserted baby boy with a note and half of a dollar bill pinned to its clothing. The note states that the mother hopes some day to return and identify the child with the other half of the dollar bill. McTeague raises the child. When he is four years old, the captain discharges his mate Martin Webber, who seeks revenge by kidnapping the boy. A woman turns up who proves to be the missing mother. Webber is killed and the mother and Captain McTeague are united.
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