Territory (2002)
“‘Your grandmother was a young woman posing with her new baby, you say?’ ‘Yes,’ Tom excitedly responded, ‘and the baby was my Dad! They’d even dressed him in his christening robes.’ ‘But how could your father possibly maintain that he bought the locket if your grandmother was pictured wearing it shortly after he was born?’ ‘I don’t think Dad’s ever realised she was wearing the locket in the painting, I didn’t myself until my grandmother pointed it out to me. My father hasn’t even seen the portra...it for the past two years, it’s been hanging in Grandma Em’s sitting room.’ Paul darted a glance at Foong Lee. Did they dare hope, his eyes said. Could they really be this lucky?
‘Can we get hold of the portrait without your father knowing?’ Paul asked. ‘If he gets wind of its significance you can bet your last penny it’ll disappear.’ ‘Miriam,’ Tom said with a confident grin. In response to the mystified looks on both men’s faces, he added, ‘she’s one of my sisters-in-law, the only one sympathetic to my cause.’ Miriam Sullivan was more than sympathetic to Tom’s cause.MoreLess
‘Can we get hold of the portrait without your father knowing?’ Paul asked. ‘If he gets wind of its significance you can bet your last penny it’ll disappear.’ ‘Miriam,’ Tom said with a confident grin. In response to the mystified looks on both men’s faces, he added, ‘she’s one of my sisters-in-law, the only one sympathetic to my cause.’ Miriam Sullivan was more than sympathetic to Tom’s cause.MoreLess
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