August 7, 2020

i finally got around to reading re: pauling’s settlement trust. what a ghastly case and wretched family! the poor schizophrenic eldest son (living with his grandmother) who didn’t last one day in the airforce and only managed to teach 2 years in a boys’ school; the youngest son (served with the blues in germany) who only turned up very late in the judgment in one line, described by the judge as “one more chicken to be plucked”; the disingenuous daughter colluding in the “silly little lies” and affecting innocence on the stand; the second son, 21 and under his father’s thumb, signing document after document; and mrs younghusband nee pauling of the case title, was she under her husband’s influence or did she resent the marriage settlement and always meant to get at her fortune? the sheer facts of the case almost compels one to write a novel, and not merely out of gawking curiousity.

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