In Davis-Gardner’s version, the Pinkertons return to America with 4-year-old “Benji,” who’s explained away as an orphan adopted from the streets of Nagasaki.

With his Japanese features atop blonde hair, Benji is fated never quite to fit in either of his two worlds.

Fatefully, they decide to settle on the Illinois prairie, where Pinkerton has inherited the family farm after his father’s sudden death.

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For some reason I can’t picture Pinkerton as a farmer!