Word: five-year-old
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Dates: during 1911-1911
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...Christmas eve nine years ago the Carmans, Martha and Henry, had put their five-year-old boy to bed and turned to their dinner, when Simon Lirty--half-brother to Henry and one of those monsters of moral weakness and depravity that make such useful levers in starting melodramas--climbed in through a window and stole the child away. He had begged and borrowed until Henry had at last turned him off, and this was to be his revenge for the "desertion." Nine years later, again on Christmas eve, that other useful dramatic slow-match, the new trained nurse, tells...