Death of An Old Goat
“He chose the Turbervilles first, probably from some obscure inklings of the rights of precedence, and he rang up Kenilworth in advance to tell them he was coming. Kenilworth was the property which Mr Turberville’s father had bought from the grandson of a Scottish convict who had stolen sheep from Sir Walter Scott. He thought the Turbervilles would probably be a pleasant relief after a day spent with blood-spattered bodies and bloody academics. In the University world he was never quite sure wha...t pose to adopt. Towards the Turbervilles he knew what his attitude and manner had to be: servile. He had always got on very well with them in the past. There had been the little matter of the youngest Turberville boy — the one at the Drummondale School — who had shot dead a jackaroo in a fit of pique during his summer vacation. It was easy enough to hush up that one as an unfortunate accident. Luckily the jackaroo was just out from England, an ex-Barnardo’s boy, whom the Turbervilles had engaged on conditions not very far from slavery, so nobody asked any questions.MoreLess
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