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Large summary (inside book jacket, read on Internet Archive - free access there or OpenLibrary!). Could a Librarian add it, please? :) I'll "reply" with the text in full.

Capn "Hilo and Ben are two brave, young people, homeless and jobless, trying to survive on the streets of London.
Each of them running from trouble at home,…more"Hilo and Ben are two brave, young people, homeless and jobless, trying to survive on the streets of London.
Each of them running from trouble at home, they meet while looking for work and decide to make a go of it together, finding unexpected warmth and comradeship among the other homeless people sleeping rough. In particular, with the tough old man, Uncle All-Sorts and the Cat-Lady, Annie Mog.
When Ben is traced by the Salvation Army and told his father is dying, he knows he has to go home, but Hilo has got pneumonia and refuses to go to hospital. Having no other choice, he leaves her, semi-conscious, outside of the house of a friendly woman, Martha, whose sister is a doctor. Fearing that he will never see Hilo again, Ben sets off back north.
Hilo slowly recovers and goes looking for Ben, but cannot find him. And when Ben returns to London, Hilo has gone.
After much anguished searching, they meet again, and with the prospect of a job and somewhere to live at last, life begins to look more hopeful for the two of them."(less)

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