I'm so glad said thaddeus sholto.miss morstan your father had avery weak heart. if his heart had been stronger,he would have been alive today
miss morstan sat down and her face turned very white.
I knew that he was dead: she said. There were tears in her eyes.
Please tell us why we have been brought here; said miss morstan.
My father; sholto said, was major sholto of the Indian ariny. He retired from the army about eleven years ago. My brother, Bartholomew ,and I were his only children. We knew that captain morstan and our father had been very good friends in india. My brother and I also knew that our father was afraid of something he never went out alone. He often spoke about a men with a wooden leg who followed him. He seemed very afraid of this man.
One day in 1882 our father received a letter letter from India. This letter upset him very much. He became ill. Every day he grew weaker. At last,he was dying. He asked to see me and my brother. He said that he wanted to tell us the truth about captain morstan’s death
When father was in india