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few
hours until a doctor came in.”
“Are
you the folks from Hamer?” the doc asked. We nodded. “The patient
is awake and asking for you. Before you go in, he may be a little out
of it. When he recovered from anesthesia, he kept demanding a
lawyer.” “The doctor seemed to suggest he was more worried about
a lawyer suing him than Tex’s recovery. We followed him into the
intensive care room where Tex looked near death, but when he saw us,
he seemed to improve a bit.”
“I
need a lawyer,” He wheezed.
“What?”
Vernon asked.
Tex
took a breath and with more strength said, “I need a lawyer right
now. Go get a lawyer!”
“Why?”
I asked, “What’s happening?”
“I
need to get a lawyer to write my will…”after a pause he
continued, “I want to leave my farm to your boys. I want a will
that states I give everything I have to Russell and Casey.”
“It’s
after 6:00; everything will be closed,” I told him.
“Get
Sinclair, he will come in for me,” Tex said forcing out the words.
He looked bad again and seemed to fall asleep.
“Okay,
we’ll try to get Sinclair,” Vernon said. Tex didn’t respond and
after a few minutes we left. We called Sinclair’s office and of
course there was no answer, but he had a recorded voice saying he was
out of town. We couldn’t contact any other lawyer in the night. We
went back to the hospital early in the morning. The hospital told us
Tex had died and wanted us to fill out paperwork for him. They wanted
to know about next of kin because they wanted to know about their
payment. What could we do? We told them about his family. It was the
right thing to do.
Chapter
34
The
next couple of weeks went by. We found out Tex’s bunch had blown
into town with a team of lawyers. They had him buried in a pauper’s
grave without even a funeral service. They took control of his farm
and immediately sold the farm to Rene. The whole process took a few
days for the greedy bastards to finish their wicked work and fly back
to Texas.
“Tex’s
worst nightmares came true,” I said sadly. “He told us this would
happen and it did! Exactly like he said it would. Rene got a farm
that he lied and cheated to get, and then got another farm by the
death of a good man.”
“The
rich get richer!” Russ said morosely, “The good die and evil
lives forever!”
I
don't know how I would have reacted or even how it would change me to
have something material (money) handed to me. I have always had to
work for what I got and working for money and things makes them more
valuable. Maybe if someone handed us something 'not material'
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