To Settle a Bill

y they have changed for the better.
             The house was miles from anywhere the only way from there to the nearest town was through the vast forest that surrounded these lands and that was a ten-mile journey. The whole journey was very bumpy; I was seated in the back of a black Land Rover, which had picked me up from the town.
             "Driver how long is it till we reach the house?" I asked anxiously.
             "We won't be long Sir, we will be there in a minute or two." he replied quietly.
             "I bet the good old Sir does not get many visitors these days." I put forward.
             "You're the first visitor with in the last seven months, not many come down here to see him in his fragile stage, or more he wishes to be alone for the last of his days. He does not to concern his family about his health." He answered.
             "Ah, when will Tom and Harry arrive, I haven't seen them in years." I asked politely.
             "Well, they have already arrived, they came in yesterday evening. Earlier than expected I must say, The Sir was expecting them today with you." he replied.
             I thought to myself for a while, It was very odd that they both arrived a day before they were asked to, they did not particularly like their father very much. He missed most of their young lives; while he was away on business meetings and trips around the world the boys were growing without a father by their side. They had never forgiven him for that and when their mother died it just got even worse. He tried to make up with them, tried to say sorry for all the time he was away but his efforts only backfired on him. By the time they had got old enough to leave their father and move on they took the step and soon they went their own ways. Tom went America and Harry went to London. They weren't very successive in their pursuits of a good career, Tom became a lawyer but after two years the firm whom he was working for fired him fo...

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