He sometimes backed one of their own horses from the Gaylord stables, but so did the Colonel; it's the regular thing in Virginia.

As for his ever having been disinherited, that is a newspaper story, pure and simple.

I never heard anything of the sort, and the neighborhood has told me pretty much all there is to know within the last few days." "His father never turned him out of the house then ?" "Never that I heard of.

He did leave home once because his father insulted him, but he came back again." "That was forgiving," commented Terry.

"In general, though, I understand that the relations between the two were rather strained ?" "At times they were," I admitted, "but things had been going rather better for the last few days." "Until the night before the murder.