Michael James Wixted

Mrs. Whipple is beside herself with excitement when her only son returns home. After fighting in the Civil War, Granville does his best to re-adjust to the outside world, but with so much emotional trauma to deal with, he tries to avoid it, which affects more than just himself.

A half-breed Indian policeman, trailing three renegades, visits his white mother, but she refuses to acknowledge him as her son.

The twins make friends with a boy who does not have any parents and has run away from an orphanage. They hid him in the apartment, moving him from room to room, so the others do not find him.