Troy didn’t move back to his father’s house until the inheritance trial had been settled. It wasn’t that his ownership of the house and the walled garden around it was at all in doubt. His father’s will had been as forceful as the man had been and given as little leeway for opposition. It wasn’t even because he had murdered him, for this, to Troy’s vague surprise, nobody nobody seemed to know. It wasn’t the porcelain crabs either, which although they could walk up or down stairs, and had done so in his presence to keep the fact fresh on his mind while he still had shared the house with them and his father, never bothered to go below the second floor where his bedroom was.
The Third Inheritance
The Third Inheritance
The Third Inheritance
Troy didn’t move back to his father’s house until the inheritance trial had been settled. It wasn’t that his ownership of the house and the walled garden around it was at all in doubt. His father’s will had been as forceful as the man had been and given as little leeway for opposition. It wasn’t even because he had murdered him, for this, to Troy’s vague surprise, nobody nobody seemed to know. It wasn’t the porcelain crabs either, which although they could walk up or down stairs, and had done so in his presence to keep the fact fresh on his mind while he still had shared the house with them and his father, never bothered to go below the second floor where his bedroom was.