Saturday, 27 April 2024
Wheel of Fortune Part IV
After the war, the tensions between the 2 cousins carry on, and then both of their wives die around the same time. A little while after the war Bella becomes pregnant again. She and Anna go shopping for the baby, and Anna is killed in a car crash. Bella loses the baby, but she still desperately wants to have a daughter so she gets pregnant again. Harry persuades her to have an abortion because he is worried that another childbirth might kill her. So she has a termination and things go wrong, so she dies and she is only in her 20s.
Harry tries to cope with his 4 sons, and Kester is alone. He has a nervous breakdown, and a little later, he kills Thomas, his uncle, who had been rude to Anna because of her Jewishness.
Panicking, he calls Harry for help. Harry realises that Kester is going to try and blame Tom's death on him, and he tells Kester that he will help him cover up the killing, as long as Kester does what he wants. They fake a car crash, to destroy Thomas' body. Harry then blackmails Kester into ceding Oxmoon to him, and saying he will go and live in Dublin with his Irish relatives.
John dies, suddenly, and he does not leave his estates outside Oxmoon to Harry as his son had expected. He leaves a complicated will, with the lands that Harry hoped to inherit going to the children of Marian, John's elder daughter. So Harry fears that some day, Kester will return to Gower to confront him and if he loses Oxmoon he has nothing to fall back on. He still owns Penhale Manor but it is a small estate.
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