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Mr. Reuben Wray, a retired acting professional who has had little general population success, flees Stratford-upon-Avon fearing pursuit by the authorities. He arrives in Tidbury in the Marsh and sets up shop teaching elocution. Two local villains notice he posesses alternatively large cash box and try to steal the articles. When their strategies come to naught plus they exact their revenge Mr. Wray is kept devastated and it requires Annie, his granddaughter, and her expected, Martin, to rectify the problem. It is Squire Colebatch however, an ex-patron of Reubens, who brings the perfect closing to the wonderful Christmas whimsy. Wilkie Collins was a buddy of Charles Dickens and like this great man he was a radical freethinker with a enthusiasm for the protection under the law of the normal man and a disdain for Victorian convention. Both men acquired a love for the theatre and performed Collins' book 'The Frozen Deep' [also an Assembled Stories subject] as a play, once by Royal Command line. The authors' love of puzzle, the works of Shakespeare and his sympathy for the plight of the lower orders get together in this quixotic and very heart-warming tale.