Two For Three Farthings

Horace was ten, Ethel seven, when Jim Cooper, home from the trenches, minus an arm and just about managing on his own, found them huddled in a doorway on a wet night in Walworth. Slightly against his better judgement he took them in. A few days later he found that - somehow - he had become the unofficial guardian of Horace and Ethel.

Horace was ten, Ethel seven, when Jim Cooper, home from the trenches, minus an arm and just about managing on his own, found them huddled in a doorway on a wet night in Walworth. Slightly against his better judgement he took them in. A few days later he found that - somehow - he had become the unofficial guardian of Horace and Ethel.