Two For Three Farthings - Mary Jane Staples - Bog

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.