More from The Vineyard: Trafalgar Wallace the Third, referred to by friend and foe alike as Tripp, was not widely regarded as a good man or a bad man, as most people measure character. He was known as a practical man, which is a very different thing. He came from a long line of practical men who knew two things well enough that they didn’t need or care to know much else: the proper way to invest the family’s money and the proper way to spend it—or not spend it, preferably, while enjoying the things money could buy before grudgingly passing the remainder on to the next ungrateful generation. By this self-defeating credo, as the Wallace family tree spread and swelled in size across the centuries, the multiplying heirs were required to spend less of the family’s money than those who came before them. This demanded a temperament they all distinctly lacked. As the latest Wallace heir, Tripp was doing on the ocean that day what he did best: squandering what was left of his inheritance. (c) 2014 M. C. Hurley
Posted on: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 13:58:33 +0000
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