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Their dying father’s wealth protection plan is inverted when the children’s uncle, driven by greed, arranges for hired ruffians to kill them in a wood. The plot shifts through uneasy bargaining, reluctant violence, conflict between attackers, and the final attempt to spare the children that fails. 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