repair shop when they were old enough.”
“What happened to him?”
Nobody answered immediately.
Then my father said, “Your grandfather made a terrible mistake.”
He spoke as though he had repeated those words to himself a thousand times.
“When Thomas was twenty-one, he and Daniel had a disagreement over money. It was more serious than an ordinary argument. Their father had died, their mother was struggling, and there was a small amount of money left from an insurance payment.”
My mother took over.
“Thomas believed the money should be used
