daddy long legs

When Jerusha Abbott,  an eighteen-year-old girl living in an   orphan asylum, was told that a mysterious  millionaire had agreed to pay for her  education, it felt like a dream come true. For the first time in her life, she had someone she could imagine as “family.”  But everything was not perfect—he chose  to remain anonymous and asked that she  write to him only about her progress in school. Who was this mysterious  gentleman, and would Jerusha  ever meet him?