In the novel (which first appeared as a serialization in "McClure's" magazine beginning November 1896) Harvey Cheyne is 15 and his father and mother travel by train from San Diego when they are notified Harvey has arrived in Gloucester. In the film his father says (at 05:23) "I wish his mother had lived to see him now, ten years old and yet he's one of the editors of his school paper."
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