Regarding Anna by Florence Osmund

Author:Florence Osmund [Osmund, Florence]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary, (v5)
ISBN: 0991518527
Amazon: B00U2NFZB4
Publisher: Florence Osmund
Published: 2015-02-26T06:00:00+00:00

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Minnie was waiting for me at the kitchen table.

“So, what did you find out?” I asked her.

Her eyes were wide. She shook her head.

I sat down in the chair opposite her. “What’s the matter? Say something.”

“You’re not going to believe this.”

“What? Tell me.”

She pulled a 100-pound note from her purse. “See this?” she asked.

“Yes.”

“This little sheet of paper is worth $321.28.”

“What!?”

“You heard me.”

“But you’ve got 372 of those little sheets of paper.”

“The whole way home on the bus, I tried to figure out how much that was, but I kept losing track. I was never good at math.”

“I can’t do it either without an adding machine, but even if you had just 300 of them and each one was only worth $300, that’s $90,000!”

She looked like she might faint.

“Are you all right?”

“Pour me a Scotch. Make it a big one. Pour yourself one too.” She seemed to have forgotten I was on crutches.

“Where’s the money?” I asked her as I prepared our drinks.

“It’s well hidden.”

“It needs to be in a more secure place—like a bank.”

“But it doesn’t even rightfully belong to me.”

“Let’s think about that. Assume it did belong to O’Gowan. If the man had a will, it would have gone to his heirs. Maybe. He wasn’t a U.S. citizen, so I don’t know whose law applies. It would go according to Irish law, I guess.”

We stared at each other for a long moment.

“It gets a bit complicated, doesn’t it?” she said.

“We’ll figure it out.”

“Gracie?”

“Yes.”

“Do you believe in the hereafter?”

What brought that up? “I never thought about it very much. Why?”

“I don’t know. I was just thinking about my Muriel. Is she still six years old up in heaven, or is she the age she would have been if she was still here?”

I shook my head. I had enough trouble trying to figure out things that were in the here and now.

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