parents had been recently divorced and their father had forbidden them from seeing their mother. When they get to their mother's new house, the narrator recognised the Persian carpet on the floor of her house. A couple of months before her parent's divorce, her mother had put the carpet on the roof in the sun. However, when she went up to retrieve it, it was missing. Her mother blamed Ilya, a nearly blind old man, of stealing the carpet. He presumably left the town after her mother wrongly accused him…
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