Ten years before this book began, two small children, twins, were left at an inn by they uncle, while he ran an errand. But he never returned. Only a few clues were found in the box left with the twins - four exquisite puppets, part of a letter, a ticket to an actor's benefit, and some gold. Barnabas Hormsby, a local printer, and his wife Susan, took them in, and raised them as their own children. But when Susan died, the Hormsbys took the the...