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1888
Three Years' Imprisonment
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A mother working for poor wages revenges herself on her exacting mistress for the evidence she gave convicting the poor woman's son and having him sentenced to 3 years imprisonment. Not only does she keep her imprisoned in the cellar for three years but in her slight derangement of mind cunningly makes her disappearance look like suicide. Her son is released on a neighbour's evidence and it happens he and his mother are the true heirs to the farm she works on ... (PB)
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