Rewriting the Will Learn English through story level 3

chapter 1

the last day

it’s the last day

even the last hour now

i’m an old man

lonely and unloved

sick and hurting

and tired of living

i am ready for death

it has to be better than this

i own this tall glass building

the land around it and the 2 000 people

who work here

i own silver in nevada

coffee in kenya

and coal in angola

my company owns businesses that produce

electricity

make computers and print books

i’m worth more than 11 billion dollars

the money

is my greatest problem

i had three families three ex-wives who

had seven children

they’re gathering here today

because i’m dying

and it’s time to divide the money

i don’t care who gets the money

but i do care very much who doesn’t get

it

my first wife was lillian

we married young

i was 24 and she was 18

and had four children

her oldest boy is now 47.

troy jr or tj

was thrown out of college when he was 19

for selling drugs

i gave him like the others

5 million dollars on his 21st birthday

it ran like water through his fingers

tj’s brother rex is 44.

our oldest daughter is libergale the

child i loved desperately

until she went to college and forgot

about me she married an african and i

took her name out of my will

our younger daughter mary ross

is married to a doctor

he wants to be super rich

but they’re heavily in debt

all lillian’s children are the same

they’re in debt and unemployable

and they want my money

after lillian i married my secretary

janie

a beautiful young thing 22 years younger

than me

she had two children

the younger one rocky was killed in a

car with two of his friends

her daughter gina is married to a fool

who could lose half a billion dollars in

three years

i married tyra when i was sixty each

family has hired a psychiatrist

their names are printed on cards in

front of them

dr zedell

dr flo

dr tyson

i study their eyes and faces

they expect me to be crazy

but i’m going to prove them wrong

josh stafford is speaking

my name is josh stafford and i am the

lawyer for mr troy phelan

the psychiatrists in this room will

examine mr phelan

if they believe that he is wholly sane

then he intends to sign a new will

stafford taps his pencil on the thick

will lying before us

my families haven’t seen the will

so they can only guess what it contains

they believe that the money will be

divided fairly among the children with

generous gifts to my ex-wives

stafford prepared the will and with my

permission

this is what he has implied

the psychiatrists begin their

examination zadel goes first

mr phelan can you tell us the date time

and place

i drop my chin to my chest like a fool

and think about the question

monday

december 9th

1996

the place is my office

the time

about

2 30 in the afternoon i say

and where is your office

mclean virginia

they ask many more questions

then taishan says

what is your current physical condition

i’m sick

i have cancer

my doctors say i won’t live more than

three months

i can feel their excitement

the rumor has been confirmed

are you under the influence of drugs or

alcohol

no

back to zadell

mr phelan you have about

11 billion dollars is that correct

yes

do you intend to sign a new will today

yes i do

is that the will on the table in front

of you

it is

does that will leave a large part of

your estate to your children

it does

zedell places his pen on the table and

looks at stafford

in my opinion mr phelan is mentally

capable of signing his will

do you all chapter 2

troy phelan’s testament

sneed reached the balcony just in time

to scream in horror

then he watched helplessly as mr phelan

fell silently

growing smaller and smaller until he

struck the ground sneed stared in

disbelief

then he began to cry

josh stafford was a step behind him and

witnessed most of the fall

it took him a minute or two to recover

from the shock and start thinking like a

lawyer again

he watched the family down below collect

around phelan’s body

then he went back into the room

the camera was still on

snead faced it raised his right hand and

swore to tell the truth

then explained what he’d just witnessed

stafford opened the envelope and held

the yellow sheets of paper close enough

for the camera to see

yes

i saw him sign that snead said just

seconds ago

did he say this was his last will and

testament

he called it his testament

stafford made durbin repeat the same

statement

then placed himself in front of the

camera and gave his version of events

when he finished he told sneed to leave

the room

stafford turned back to the camera and

looked at the sheets of yellow paper

the first sheet was a letter

stafford spoke to the camera

this letter is dated today

monday december 9th 1996.

it is addressed to me from troy phelan

i will read it in full

dear josh

i am dead now

these are my instructions and i want you

to follow them closely

first i want a quick examination of my

body

second there will be no funeral

i want to be cremated and my ashes

scattered from the air over my ranch in

wyoming

third i want you to keep my will secret

until january 15 1997.

the law does not require you to produce

it immediately

goodbye

troy

stafford carefully picked up the second

piece of paper

this is a one-page document

it is the last testament of troy l

phelan

i will read it all

the last testament of troy l phelan

to each of my children troy phelan jr

rex phelan

libergale jeter

mary ross jackman gina strong and rap

the following day stafford met tip

durbin and together they drove to the

medical examiner’s office in mclean

the cause of death is obvious there’s no

trace of alcohol or drugs the medical

examiner said

and there was no sign of cancer

troy was in good health at the time of

his

death did he tell you he had cancer

durbin asked stafford on the drive back

yes

several times

why did he lie

who knows

everybody thought he was dying why did

he jump

he was a very lonely old man

it seems like a nasty trick durbin said

he promises money to his family

the psychiatrists say that he isn’t

crazy

then at the last minute he signs a

different will

why did he hate them so much

they embarrassed him

they fought with him

they never earned an honest dime and

they spent many of his millions

troy never planned to leave them

anything

back at his office stafford talked to

members of his team

you have to find a person who

i suspect

does not want to be found

he told them what he knew about rachel

lane

there wasn’t much

first find out about the world tribes

missions who are they how do they

operate

how do they pick their people

where do they send them

everything

find out about her mother evelyn

cunningham

she’s dead now

find out all you can

tj nursed a sore head until noon

then drank a beer

he walked around his dirty apartment

he couldn’t find his wife

he and biff had been through three

fights already that day

he opened another beer and looked at

himself in the mirror in the hall

troy phelan jr he said son of troy

phelan 10th richest man in america worth

11 billion

yes

he dressed in his best suit

a gray one he’d worn yesterday when dear

old dad faced the psychiatrists and

performed so wonderfully

armani here i come

he whistled joyfully

life had been soft and luxurious for the

first 20 years

and then he received his inheritance

his 5 million had disappeared before he

reached 30

and his father hated him for it

what can i do with half a billion

dollars he asked himself as he drove

along the highway

gina felin strong was 30 and married to

cody husband number two

he had big dreams

but after six months his businesses had

made huge losses

the five million troy gave gina on her

21st birthday had shrunk to less than a

million

and their debts were growing then troy

jumped from the window

they spent the morning looking for homes

in swinx mill the place of their

grandest dreams

by dusk they were looking at an empty

house priced at four and a half million

and seriously considering making an

offer

rex

age 44 brother of tj

was under criminal

investigation a bank had failed and the

fbi was making fierce inquiries

he owed more than seven million dollars

now troy was dead rex could stop

worrying

he could pay his debts and play with his

money

he spent the day with hark gettys his

lawyer

he wanted the money quickly desperately

and he pressured gettys to call josh

stafford we have to see that will he

shouted at hark throughout the day

hark calmed him with a long lunch and

good wine

amber rex’s wife dropped by

and found them both drunk

she wasn’t angry

she loved rex

more than ever now

hark gettys was excited the old man was

dead and his crazy family was a lawyer’s

dream

this was his chance to start his own

company and to make a lot of money

he wanted a long fight over the will a

fight that would make him famous and

rich

according to the internet the world

tribe’s missions headquarters was in

houston texas

their goal was to spread christianity

around the world

and they had 4 000 missionaries working

with native peoples

28 indian tribes in brazil were being

ministered to by world tribes

missionaries

these missionaries received training in

living in the jungle languages

and medical skills

so rachel lived in a hut

and slept on a bed she’d built herself

and cooked over a fire

she ate food she’d grown or trapped and

killed

and taught bible stories to the children

and the adults

she knew nothing and certainly cared

nothing for the worries and pressures of

the world

we may never find her durban said

chapter three

nate’s mission

nate walked to his window and looked at

the shenandoah valley one thousand

meters below

it was covered with new snow

he remembered that it was almost

christmas and the thought saddened him

the kids were gone now

either grown or taken away by their

mothers

the last thing nate wanted was another

christmas in a bar with other drunks

breakfast was black coffee which he had

with his nurse sergio

for the last four months sergio had also

been his best friend

he knew everything about the miserable

life of nate o’reilly

do you have a guest today mr stafford

sergio said wonderful

josh had visited once a month

nate was resting in his room when josh

arrived

you look great josh said

are you doing i need to get out of here

josh

your doctor says another week or two

great

then what

can i come back to the company

not so fast nate

you have a couple of problems

we can deal with a bankruptcy but that

still leaves the problem of your taxes

from 1992 to 1995

nate had failed to report about 60

dollars in other income

so what am i supposed to do nate asked

do you think i’m going to prison

troy phelan died

josh said

and it took nate a second to understand

i didn’t know

when did he die

four days ago

jumped out of a window

he just signed two wills

the first prepared by me

the second and last he wrote himself

then he jumped

he left everything to an illegitimate

daughter i’ve never heard of

i want you to find her

me

yes

we don’t know where she is

how much did he about 11 billion before

taxes

does she know it

no

she doesn’t even know he’s dead

where is she

brazil we think

she’s a missionary working with a tribe

of indians

how long will i be gone nate asked

it’s a wild guess but i’d say 10 days

there’s no hurry

and she might be hard to find

what part of the country

west near bolivia

this mission she works for says the

phelan case landed on the desk of judge

f par wycliffe

he was thrilled to get such a famous

lawsuit

and called josh stafford to introduce

himself

is there a will wickliffe asked yes

there’s a will

where is it when will the money be

released

i have it josh said

my client asked me to wait until january

15th

why

the reason was simple troy wanted his

greedy children to spend a lot of money

before they found out he hadn’t left

them anything

i have no idea josh said

what’s in the will

i can’t tell you

i’m a little sympathetic to the feeling

family wycliffe said

they have a right to know what’s in the

will

i think we should read it to them on

december 27th

josh wanted to laugh

gather them all together the feelings

and their lawyers and their new friends

make sure the newspapers know about it

he could hear the crying and the cursing

as the feelings tried to understand what

their father had done to them

suddenly

josh couldn’t wait

the 27’s fine with me he said

good wickliffe said

i’ll let everybody know

there are lots of lawyers

it helps if you remember that there are

six kids and three ex-wives so there are

nine principal sets of lawyers

i hope my courtroom is big enough

i suggest you read the will josh said

wycliffe intended to

he imagined what would happen

people crowded together

not a sound as the envelope was opened

this would be one of his finest moments

reading a will that gave away

11

billion dollars

i assume the will is

interesting

the judge said

it’s very interesting

the judge actually smiled

as usual josh had carefully planned

nate’s release

he arrived at the hospital with a bag

full of clothes a passport tickets and

plenty of cash

how do you feel josh asked as they drove

south

could you stop at the nearest store

sure

why

i’d like to get some beer

very funny

i’d kill for a tall coca-cola

back in the car josh said

your flight goes to sao paulo then

you’ll go on to a city called chapter

four into the pantanal

valderruez was a pleasant man

happy with life in the way most

brazilians tend to be

he worked efficiently in his small

office just him and a secretary

he was proud of his english

he produced a large air map and pointed

to the pantanal

no roads or highways more than 100 000

kilometers of swamp

there were four red x’s along the

western edge of the map near bolivia

there are tribes here

he said to nate pointing to the marks

how large are they nate asked

we don’t really know

valdir replied

his words very slow and careful

he was trying hard to impress the

american with his english

a hundred years ago

there were many more

but the tribes grow smaller

they have little contact with the

outside world

their culture hasn’t changed for one

thousand years

do we know where the missionaries are

it is difficult to say

valdere pointed at two of the x’s

these are guato

there will probably be missionaries

around here

you must understand that there are at

least 20 different american and canadian

groups with missionaries in brazil

it’s easy to get into our country

and it’s easy to move around

no one really cares who is out there and

what they are doing

nate pointed at korumba

then to the nearest red x

how long does it take to get from here

to there

by plane

about an hour

by boat

from three to five days

then where’s my plane

it’s not that easy valdeire said

he pointed

these are cattle farms

only a few can be reached by boat

so they use small airplanes

the airstrips are marked in blue

even if you flew into the area you would

have to use a boat to get to the indians

how good are the airstrips

they’re all grass

sometimes they cut the grass

sometimes they don’t

the biggest problem is cows

cows

yes

cows like grass

sometimes it’s hard to land because the

cows are eating the airstrip

could i fly into the pantanal then ren

he thanked valdir and left the office he

walked toward the river and found a

small park

the late afternoon was humid

his shirt was stained with sweat

and stuck to his chest

what happened back at valdere’s office

had scared him

he sat on the edge of a picnic table

and looked at the great pantanal lying

before him

a musician began to play his guitar

as the sun sank slowly

over the bolivian mountains

not far away

a pilot agreed to fly

but he wanted to leave early and be back

in karumba by noon because it was

christmas eve

valdir had hired a guide called jv

he was 24 single and strong

he ran into the palace hotel wearing a

bush hat shorts black army boots

and a shiny knife in his belt

nate liked him immediately

his truck was old but ready for the

jungle

they roared through the streets of

korumba

slowing only slightly at red lights

completely ignoring stop signs

jv talked as he held the wheel like a

race driver

nate didn’t hear a word

his heart stopped at each new

intersection

the airport was empty

the pilot’s name sounded like milton

he was friendly enough but it was

obvious he didn’t want to fly or work on

the day before christmas

do you feel safe

nate asked javi when the pilot announced

he was ready

jv laughed and said no problem

this man has four small children and a

pretty wife why would he risk his life

koremba was immediately beneath them

to the east and north a dozen small

rivers spun circles around and through

each other

because of the floods the rivers were

full

and in many places ran together

in the west were the distant mountains

of bolivia

the sky was darker beyond the mountains

milton dropped to 4 000 meters to stay

below the clouds he was worried about

the dark sky

we’ll watch it for a few minutes jv said

milton wanted to go home

but nate at least wanted to see the

indian villages

he still held the faint hope that he

could somehow fly to meet rachel and

take her back to korumba

where they could have lunch in a nice

cafe and discuss her father’s case

raindrops began hitting chapter five

the slide

nate woke up covered in blood

it was still raining

milton and javi were lying on top of

each other but moving and struggling to

get out of their seats

nate found a window and stuck his head

out

the plane was on its side with a wing

cracked and folded under the cabin

blood was everywhere but it was from the

cow not the passengers

the boy with a stick led them to a small

stable

out of the storm milton dropped to his

knees and began to pray

they sat in the dirt for a long time

watching the rain

hearing the wind

thinking of what could have been

saying nothing

marco the owner of the cow

appeared an hour later and began a

heated discussion with jv and milton

about the value of the cow

i’ll pay for the creature nate said to

jv

jv asked the man how much

then said a hundred dollars

does he take american express

nate asked

but the humor missed its mark

i’ll pay it

he’d pay as much as that to stop marco

complaining

the deal was settled and the man became

their host

when he realized nate was from the

states he sent for his wife and kids

they ate rice and black beans around a

small table

the children sat on the floor beside the

table eating bread and rice watching

every move nate made

marco had a small boat with a motor

the paraguay river was five hours away

maybe he had enough gasoline

maybe he didn’t

but it would be impossible to get there

with all three men in the boat

jv had a plan

there was an army base on the edge of

kurumba

when the sky cleared nate carefully

unpacked the satellite phone and turned

on the power

the signal was strong

and marco and his family gathered around

he wondered if they’d ever seen a phone

jv called a friend who found phone

numbers

he then explained the situation to an

army officer and asked for help after

all they had had a plane crash

finally the commander himself came to

the phone

he and jv traded army talk for five

minutes places they’d been to people

they knew

then jv explained what had happened

no problem

hey after valdir hung up

nate got up and moved slowly around the

room

he saw the empty beer cans in the

wastebasket

he would deal with that later

this was not a slide

he had nearly died yesterday and that

changed things

every day was a gift now

why not enjoy its pleasures

just a little beer and wine

nothing stronger

nate dressed and walked into town

the stores were locked and the streets

were empty

he went back to the park and looked down

at the great panthenal in front of him

somewhere in the vast wetlands before

him

was rachel lane

she would soon be one of the richest

women in the world

how would she react to the news of her

good fortune

the possible answers made him

uncomfortable

they had learned little about rachel

evelyn cunningham her mother was from

the small town of delhi louisiana

when she was 19 she moved to baton rouge

and found a job as a secretary in one of

troy phelan’s companies

she was a beautiful woman

and troy spotted her during one of his

visits from new york

within a few months

evelyn was pregnant

troy’s people arranged for evelyn to go

to a hospital in new orleans where

rachel was born in november 1954.

evelyn never saw her child

troy arranged for the quick private

adoption of rachel by a minister and his

wife in montana

evelyn took ten thousand dollars and

returned to delhi

she moved in with her parents

rarely left the house

and began to miss her daughter

she wrote letters to troy

none of which were answered

as the years passed

evelyn became more and more depressed

she killed herself on november 2nd 1959

on rachel’s fifth birthday

she drove her parents car to the edge of

town

and jumped off a bridge

rachel was an only child

her adoptive father mr lane

died when she was 17.

troy re-entered her life as she was

finishing high school

maybe he felt guilty

maybe he was worried about her college

education and how she would afford it

rachel knew she was adopted but had

never shown an interest in her real

parents

troy met rachel sometime in the summer

of 1972.

chapter six

legal challenges

next morning jv drove to the river and

parked near the water’s edge

the santa lora hadn’t moved

he was pleased to see that welly had

arrived

well he wasn’t yet 18 but claimed he

could cook pilot guide clean and

navigate

jv knew he was lying

have you seen mr o’reilly jv asked

the american

no no sign of him

jv drove downtown to the hotel to find

nate

the girl at the front desk hadn’t seen

mr o’reilly

she phoned his room and no one answered

javy persuaded her to give him the key

the door was locked but unchained

and jv entered slowly

the first thing he noticed was the empty

bed

then he saw the bottles

one was empty

and the other half filled

he saw a bare foot

then stepped closer to see nate lying

between the bed and the wall

javi gently kicked his foot and the leg

moved at least he wasn’t dead

javy pulled nate up from the floor and

rolled him onto the bed

his eyes were swollen and still closed

his hair wild his breathing slow

nate

jv said loudly speak to me

no response

in the bathroom he wet a towel with cold

water

then wrapped it around nate’s neck

nate opened his mouth in an effort to

speak

where am i

he said

his tongue thick and sticky

in brazil

in your hotel room

i’m alive

more or less

jv carried nate into the bathroom into

the shower where he fell onto the

plastic floor

i’m sorry nate said over and over again

jv left him there and went downstairs

for a pot of strong coffee

it was almost two when welly heard them

coming

jv parked on the bank

there was no sign of the american

then a head slowly lifted itself from

inside the car

the eyes were covered with thick shades

and a cap was pulled as low as possible

jv walked to the passenger door and

helped mr o’reilly out

he looked very sick

with white skin that was wet with sweat

and he was too weak

to walk alone

jv nate slept for four hours and the

santa lora traveled slowly toward the

north

the sun was beginning to fall behind the

distant mountains of bolivia the air was

light and much cooler

the water is high jv said we’ll go much

faster on the return

he pointed to a place on the map

the first indian village is in this area

it will take two

maybe three days

nate didn’t care

time had stopped

his watch was in his pocket

he’d cheated death and so every day now

was a gift

are you okay jv asked

i’m fine

i feel good

this little trip will be good for me

there was a lot more jv wanted to ask

but nate wasn’t ready to talk

he went back to his hammock with the

papers josh had given him

he put insect repellent on his arms and

legs

and began to read

the courtroom filled with members of the

phelan family and their lawyers

at ten o’clock judge wickliffe came in

the room was silent as he took his place

at the front of the court

good morning he said

everyone smiled back

to his great satisfaction the room was

full

is everybody here he asked

i need to identify everyone

the first papers were filed by rex

phelan

hark gettys jumped to his feet

your honor i’m hark geddes he said

loudly i represent mr rex felin

thank you you may take your seat

wycliffe went around the tables taking

the names of the heirs and their lawyers

six children three ex-wives

everyone was present

22 lawyers wycliffe said to himself

do you have the will mr stafford he

asked

josh stood holding a file i do

you represented troy phelan wickliffe

asked

did you prepare a will for him

i prepared several

did you prepare his last will

there was a pause it grew longer as the

felons leaned closer

no

i did not

josh said slowly

the words were soft but they cut through

the air like thunder

the courtroom grew quiet

who prepared his last will and testament

wyclef asked

mr phelan himself

oh my god

heart get is said under his breath the

head of south american missions was a

woman named neva collier

she’d spent 11 years working in the

mountains of new guinea so she

understood the challenges of the 900

people whose activities she organized

and she was the only person who knew

that rachel porter had once been rachel

lane illegitimate daughter of troy

phelan

after medical school rachel had changed

her name to wipe out her past

she had no family

both adoptive parents had died

she had only troy

and she was desperate to remove him from

her life

after completing the world tribe’s

training rachel had told her secrets to

neva collier

neva had promised never to tell anyone

about rachel

including where she was in south america

sitting in her small neat office in

houston

neva read the extraordinary account of

mr phelan’s will

she’d followed the story since the

suicide

communication with rachel was slow

they exchanged mail twice a year in

march

and august

rachel usually called once a year from a

pay phone in kurumba when she went there

for supplies

neva had spoken to her the year before

rachel’s last vacation had been in 1992.

she had no interest in the united states

it was not her home

she belonged with her people

the lawyers met at a hotel in a large

room where the tables had been hastily

put together in a perfect square

there were 50 people in the room

no felines were present only their legal

teams

hark gettys started the meeting

he suggested that each lawyer briefly

state his or her ideas about the lawsuit

grit the lawyer hired by mary ross

phelan jackman and her husband

stood and demanded war we must challenge

the will

the old man was crazy

he jumped to his death

and he gave one of the world’s great

fortunes to an unknown heir

sounds crazy to me

we can find psychiatrists who’ll say he

was crazy

what about the three who examined him

before he jumped someone said from

across the table

that was stupid grit said

feeling fooled you and you guys fell for

it

the head of the legal team for gina and

cody strong was a woman named langhorne

she’d won chapter seven

alligators and indians

nate spent the morning reading

jv joined him for coffee

so what do you think of the pantanal he

asked

it’s magnificent

were you born here

i took my first breath in the hospital

at columba

but i was born on these rivers

this is my home

you told me your father was a river

pilot

yes

when i was a small boy i began going

with him

early in the morning when everybody was

asleep

he would allow me to take the wheel

i knew all the main rivers by the time i

was ten

and he died on the river

not this

but the takiri to the east

five years ago he was guiding a boat of

germans when a storm hit them

only the deckhand lived

he was quiet for a moment then he said

a lot of people want to destroy the

panthenal

big companies that own big farms

they are clearing large sections of land

for their crops

the soil is not good so the companies

use chemicals to grow crops

and the chemicals get into the water

they run into the rivers the rivers

eventually run into the panthanal

our fish swallow them and die

doesn’t the government help

jv gave a bitter laugh

have you heard of hydrovia

no

it’s a big ditch

it will be cut through the pantanal to

link brazil bolivia paraguay argentina

and uruguay

it is supposed to save south america

but it will drain the panthanal

and our government supports it

nate wanted to say something deep and

serious about taking care of the

environment

then he remembered that his countrymen

had destroyed large areas of the united

states in the name of progress

it’s still beautiful nate said

it is

sometimes i think it’s too big for them

to destroy

there is a small trading post a few

hours away we should be there before

dark

fernando is the owner and he hears

everything on the river

maybe he will know something about the

missionaries

jv emptied his coffee cup and stretched

his arms

sometimes he has beer for sale

i think

we should not buy any

he walked away

fine with me

thought nate

a cold brown bottle of beer

excellent beer

he began to sweat when the portuguese

explorer pedro alvarez gabral

first stepped on brazilian soil in 1500

the country had five million indians

after five centuries of european

civilization

only two hundred and seventy thousand

survived

it was a sick

and violent history

if the indians tried to live with the

europeans they caught strange diseases

and died if they fought the europeans

they were killed by weapons more deadly

than poison arrows

they were the slaves of ranchers and

rubber farmers

men with guns drove them from their

homes

priests murdered them and armies hunted

them

now the government was also the enemy

in 1967 the agency in charge of indian

affairs used chemical weapons to kill

indians

they gave the indians clothing that was

infected with diseases

using airplanes and helicopters they

bombed indian villages and land

with poison gas

in the 1990s the government wanted to

open up the region to the north of the

pantanal

but the indians were still in the way

the abuse of indians was growing as

ranchers pushed deep into the amazon

with the support of the government

nate read this sad history for four

hours

then went to drink coffee with jv

do you have any indian blood he asked

jv smiled

all of us have indian blood

why do you ask

i’ve been reading the history of the

indians in brazil

it’s pretty tragic

it is

do you think the indians have been

treated badly here

of course they have

what about in your country

now much better i’m afraid nate said

it wasn’t a matter he wanted to discuss

it was still dark when the engine

stopped and nate woke up

well he was loading the small boat

three large gas tanks were arranged

neatly in the center of the boat

these should give us 15 hours jv

explained

how far away is the settlement nate

asked i’m not sure

jv packed a small tent two blankets two

mosquito nets some food and bottled

water

the last item he packed was a large

knife this is for the alligators he said

laughing

nate tried to ignore it

nate took the copy of the will two hours

later they entered a large lake with

more than a dozen little rivers twisting

into it

jv didn’t know which one was the khabita

they saw a man fishing at the side of

the lake

when they were a few meters away jv

began talking to him

finally he said goodbye and they paddled

away

his mother was indian jv said

there’s a settlement a few hours from

here

a few hours

three

maybe nate moved lower in the boat and

found a spot on the bottom between the

box of food and the fuel tanks

the boat slowed

engine trouble wasn’t something he’d

worried about

suddenly nate was really scared

then they were off again the motor

roaring as if nothing had happened

it became a routine

every 20 minutes just as nate was

falling asleep

the steady beat of the motor would stop

jv played with the engine

then things would be fine for another 20

minutes

the first sign of the settlement came

seven hours after they left the sun to

lure

nate saw a thin line of blue smoke

rising above the trees near the foot of

a hill

jv was certain they were in bolivia the

ground was higher and they were close to

the mountains

they came to a gap in the trees and saw

two canoes

jv guided the boat to the bank

nate quickly jumped out anxious to

stretch his legs and feel the earth

stay close

jv warned

nate looked at him

their eyes met and jv nodded toward the

trees

an indian was watching them

a male brown skinned bare chested with a

grass skirt hanging from his waist

no visible weapon

he had long black hair and red stripes

on his forehead

he was very frightening

is he friendly nate asked without taking

his eyes off the man

i think so

does he speak portuguese

i don’t know

why don’t you go find out

relax jv stepped from the boat

he looks like he wants to eat you he

whispered

nate wasn’t amused

jv spoke to the indian but it was

obvious he didn’t speak portuguese he

looked young probably not twenty

there was a movement behind the indian

three of his tribesmen appeared

they weren’t friendly folk there were no

smiles or hellos

a young female suddenly appeared from

the trees and stood next to the first

indian

she too was brown and bare chested the

indians were guatto who preferred no

contact with outsiders

they grew their food in small patches

fished the rivers and hunted with bows

and arrows

after an hour javy smelled smoke he

climbed a tree near the boat and nate

joined him

they could see the tops of three huts

was he so close to rachel lane

was she there now listening to her

people and deciding what to do

would she send an indian to bring them

or would she simply walk through the

wood and say hello

what do you think they’re doing he asked

talking

just talking

well we need to leave soon

we left the boat eight and a half hours

ago i’d like to see welly before dark

no problem

we’ll go back with the current

and i know the way it will be much

faster

back on the ground nate had settled into

the boat to sleep when jv saw the

indians

they slowly approached the river behind

their chief

he carried a long stick

it didn’t appear sharp or dangerous

the chief directed his comments at jv

why are you here he asked in portuguese

his face wasn’t friendly but he wasn’t

aggressive

we are looking for an american

missionary a woman

jv explained

we’ve come from kurumba

this man is an american he needs to find

the woman

why does he need to find the woman is

she in danger

it was the first hint that the indians

might know of rachel lane

no

she is not here

have you ever seen a woman missionary

around here jv

asked at first there was no response

then a slight nod

the man pointed somewhere off to the

north and west

she’s with another tribe jv asked watto

the man said

how far away

a day

jv opened two maps and spread them on

the ground

the indians were very curious the chief

told jv that they hadn’t come in on the

khabita

they’d taken a wrong turn onto the river

guato

jv whispered the news to nate

nate was worried

he was trusting jv with his life

the indians talked among themselves

they couldn’t agree on a route to get to

the epicus

finally they turned again to jv

there is a settlement of epicus at the

edge of the mountains jv translated

chapter eight

the missionary

flows adele and tyson the three

psychiatrists who had declared troy feel

insane were fired

new psychiatrists were found

arcgettis bought the first one at three

hundred dollars an hour

the heirs couldn’t pay high hourly fees

to the lawyers so the lawyers agreed to

take percentages of the final

settlements

hark wanted 40 percent

but he and rex finally agreed on 25

percent

grit squeezed 25 out of mary ross phelan

jackman

the winner was wally bright

who insisted on half of libigale

settlement

none of the felon heirs asked if they

were doing the right thing they trusted

their lawyers

no one could afford to be left out

because hark was the loudest of the

felon lawyers he caught the attention of

sneed

no one had noticed sneed since the

suicide

when the will was read he was sitting in

the courtroom his face disguised with

sunglasses and a hat

he’d left in tears

he hated the feeling children because

troy hated them

over the years sneed had been forced to

do many unpleasant things to protect

troy from his families

and in return

mr phelan left him nothing

not a scent

over the years the old man had made many

promises to take care of sneed

he knew that he’d been named in one will

he’d seen the document himself

he would inherit one million dollars

when mr phelan died

at the time mr phelan was worth three

billion and snead remembered thinking

how small a million seemed

he’d occasionally asked about the matter

but mr phelan had cursed him and

threatened to cut him out completely

you’re as bad as my children

he’d said to poor sneed

somehow he’d gone from a million to zero

and he was bitter about it

he would join the enemies simply because

he had no choice

he went to hark getty’s office

the receptionist explained that mr

gettys was very busy

so am i snead replied rudely

give him this envelope it’s urgent i’ll

wait for ten minutes then i’ll walk down

the street to the next law office

the envelope held a note that read

i worked for troy phelan for 30 years

i know everything

malcolm sneed

hark appeared immediately took sneed

into a large office

at dawn the current was strong so they

moved with it as the sun rose

the only sound was the rush of the water

i guess we’re lost aren’t we nate said

i know exactly where we are

where

we’re in the panthenal

and all rivers run to the paraguay

jv tried to start the motor on the fifth

pole the motor caught

and then died

i’ll die here nate said to himself

i’ll either drown starve or be eaten

to their surprise they heard a shout

a kid of no more than 15 came toward

them in a tiny canoe

a long lazy conversation followed

what’s he saying nate asked jv

he says the indians are not far away

how far

one hour maybe two

can he take us there

he may want a few dollars

fine

the feel of state on one side of the

table and this little kid in the other

ten dollars jv said after another brief

discussion okay

for ten dollars they would be delivered

to rachel lane

they followed the boy in the canoe for

20 minutes until they entered a small

shallow stream

it was almost one when they came to the

higher ground

the boy seemed afraid to go further

just up there he told jv

nate gave him the money and they thanked

him

the boy turned back with the current and

disappeared quickly

the river ran into a forest where the

trees hung low over the water

nate felt as if they were being watched

he waited for an attack of deadly arrows

by indians dressed in war paint and

trained to kill anyone with a white face

but they saw children first

happy little brown bodies splashing in

the water

the mothers were bathing too

jv stopped the engine and began talking

and smiling

an older girl ran away toward the

settlement

three men arrived within minutes

the oldest one said he spoke jv’s

language

after a few minutes nate said

translation please what about the woman

don’t rush it i’m still trying to

persuade them not to burn you alive

more indians arrived their huts were 100

meters away near the edge of the forest

a little boy studied nate

very softly he said

hello

nate knew they were in the right place

no one else heard the boy

nate lee the indians stopped but rachel

kept walking

she removed her hat

her hair was brown and half gray

and very short

she was 42 years old but she looked

younger

she didn’t shake hands

nor did she give them her name

my name is nate o’reilly

i’m an attorney from washington

and you she said to jv

i’m jv cardozo from columba

i’m his guide

she looked them up and down with a

slight grin

the moment was not at all unpleasant for

her

what brings you here she asked

i’m looking for rachel lane

my company has important legal business

with her

what kind of legal business

i can only tell her

i’m not rachel lane i’m sorry

jv sighed and nate’s shoulders dropped

she saw every movement

are you hungry she asked them

they both nodded

she called the indians

jv she said

go with these men into the village they

will feed you and give you enough food

for mr o’reilly

she sat with nate on the bench and

watched silently as the indians took

javy to the village

he turned around once just to make sure

nate was okay

rachel lane disappeared many years ago

the woman said looking at the village in

the distance

i capped the name rachel but dropped the

lane

it must be serious or you wouldn’t be

here

she spoke softly and slowly

troy’s dead

he killed himself three weeks ago

she lowered her head slightly closed her

eyes and prayed

it was a brief prayer followed by a long

pause

silence didn’t bother her

did you know him

she finally asked

i met him once years ago

no i didn’t know him

neither did i

he was my father but he was always a

stranger

how did you find me

troy tried to find you before he died

but couldn’t

he knew you were a missionary with world

tribes and that you were in this part of

the world

it became my job to find you

he had an awful lot of money

that’s why i’m here

we need to talk

business troy left me something in his

will

you could say that

i don’t want to talk business

i want to chat

i was with a patient just an hour ago

when the boys came to tell chapter nine

a death

next morning ayesh was walking in front

of her mother when she felt the snake

move under her bare foot

it struck below her ankle as she

screamed

by the time her father got to her she

was in shock and her right foot had

doubled in size

a boy of 15 the fastest runner in the

tribe was sent to get rachel

there were four poisonous snakes in

their part of the pantanal

and rachel usually had the medicine to

cure their bites

but she’d been unable to find the

medicine for this type of snake during

her last trip to korumba

ayesha was small and thin

and she’d probably die without medicine

rachel prayed as she ran behind the boys

a group of indians took nate and jv into

the village where the chief wanted to

see them

his wife was preparing breakfast

while they were eating javi and the

chief talked

after a few sentences jv translated them

into english

nate ate

listened

and watched the village for rachel

she wasn’t there the chief explained

she was in the next village looking

after a child who’d been bitten by a

snake

he wasn’t sure when she’d return

he wants us to stay here tonight in the

village jv said

nate wished he’d brought the satellite

phone

josh must be very worried they hadn’t

talked in almost a week

lawyer valdir took the early call from

mr stafford

i haven’t heard from nate o’reilly in

days stafford said

we have had many storms down here

you haven’t heard from your boy

no they are together

the guide is very good the boat is very

good i’m sure they are well

they agreed that valdere would call when

he heard something from the boat

valdere walked to the window and looked

at the busy streets of korumba

there were many stories about people who

entered the pantanal and never came back

jv’s father had piloted the river for 30

years

and his body was never found

well he found the law office an hour

later valdir came out to see him

who are you he demanded my name is welly

jv hired me to work on the santa lura

where is jv he’s still in the panthenal

the boat sank

jv and mr o’reilly left in the small

boat to find the indians

when

a few days ago

i

lacco found nate and javy as the sun was

falling behind the mountains

nate followed the boy along the trail to

rachel’s hut

she was standing in the door

i’m sorry about the little girl nate

said

she is with the lord

she sat outside the door the boy stood

under a tree almost hidden by the

darkness

i cannot invite you into my home

only married people can be indoors at

this time of day

how long did it take you to get used to

living here nate asked

a couple of years

i missed home for three years

and there are times now when i would

like to drive a car

eat a pizza and see a good movie

bart you were just

i became a christian when i was 14 years

old and i knew that god wanted me to be

a missionary

i put my faith in him

can we talk about troy

the shadows were falling fast

they were three meters apart and could

still see each other

but the darkness would soon separate

them

if you must she said

her voice tired

troy had three wives and six children

that we knew about

you of course were a surprise

he didn’t like the other six

he left them almost nothing just enough

to cover their debts

he gave everything else to you

i haven’t seen troy for 20 years

that’s not important

he left his fortune to you

i have a copy of the will for you

i don’t want to see it

and i have some other papers which i’d

like you to sign maybe tomorrow morning

then i can be on my way

what kind of papers

legal stuff

all for your benefit

you’re not concerned with my benefit

her words were much sharper

you don’t know what i want or need you

don’t know me nate so how can you know

what’s good for me

okay you’re right

but it is very important for you to see

these papers and sign them

all the heirs must tell the court either

in person or in writing that they

understand the will it’s required by the

law

and if i refuse

honestly

i haven’t thought about that it’s

routine

everybody always cooperates

rachel was quiet for a moment

then she changed the subject

do you have family

she asked

i’ve had a couple

two marriages two divorces four children

i now live alone

divorce is so easy isn’t it

we marry then divorce

finds

josh met judge wycliffe and showed him

the video of troy phelan signing his

testament

they watched the first part of the video

without comment

it began with old troy sitting in his

wheelchair being examined by the

psychiatrists

the examination ended with the agreement

that mr phelan knew exactly what he was

doing

wycliffe smiled to himself

the room cleared the camera across from

troy was kept on

troy took out the second will and signed

it four minutes after the mental

examination had ended

how are they going to sort this out

wickliffe asked

it was a question with no answer

rex and libigale had already started to

contest the will the other heirs would

quickly do the same

what about the will he signed first

wycliffe said

he didn’t sign it

but i saw him it’s on the video

no he signed the name mickey mouse

from 1982 until 1996 i prepared 11 wills

from mr felin

the law says that with each new will the

old one has to be destroyed

when he signed the new one we

mr phelan and i burned the old one he

enjoyed it

he’d be happy for a few months then one

of his kids would make him mad and he’d

start talking about changing his will

if the heirs can prove he wasn’t sane

when he signed that handwritten will

then there is no other will

they were all destroyed

his estate will be divided between all

his children

why would he give 11 billion to an

illegitimate daughter who’s a missionary

sounds a little crazy doesn’t it

you think that feeling was crazy

wickliffe asked josh

no

strange

and very mean

but he knew what he was doing

find the girl josh

we’re trying

the next morning rachel spoke to the

chief

he thinks there’ll be a storm she said

to nate when the meeting was over

he says you can go

but he will not send a guide it’s too

dangerous

can we get back without a guide

it wouldn’t be wise

the rivers run together it’s easy to get

lost even the epicus have lost men

during the rainy season

i need to get back nate said

this trip has already taken too long

we have to talk

i have to go to the next village for the

funeral of the little girl

why don’t you go with me

we’ll have plenty of time to talk

locker led the way rachel followed him

then nate

he tried to persuade rachel to take the

money

if you had lots of money you could buy

lots of medicine you could fill your

shelves with all the medicines you need

you could buy a nice little boat to take

you to kurumba

you could build a hospital in a school

and spread christianity all over the

pantanal

she stopped and turned

i’ve done nothing to earn the money

and i didn’t know the man who made it

please

don’t mention it again

give it away

give it all to charity

it’s not mine to give

it’ll be wasted millions will go to the

lawyers and what’s left will go to your

brothers and sisters and believe me you

don’t want that

those people will cause a lot of

unhappiness if they get the money

she took his hand

very slowly she said

i don’t care

i’ll pray for them

they stopped by a stream for a few

moments to rest

you said last night that you were weak

rachel said what does that mean

i’m an alcoholic nate replied

i’ve hit the bottom four times i have no

money

i’m in trouble for non-payment of taxes

i may go to jail lose my license and not

be able to practice law

you know about the two divorces

both women dislike me and they’ve

poisoned my children

i’ve wrecked my life

anything else

rachel asked

oh yes

i’ve tried to kill myself at least twice

once last august then just a few days

ago in kurumba

i almost drank myself to death on cheap

vodka

you poor man

i’m sick

i have a disease i’ve admitted it

have you ever confessed to god

he won’t help you unless you ask

you have to go to him in prayer

he can forgive all your sins chapter 10.

fever

the storm never came

when rachel returned in the

mid-afternoon she and laco went straight

to the chief and reported on events in

the other village

she spoke to nate and jv

she was tired and wanted to sleep before

they discussed business

later she and nate walked down toward

the river to the narrow bench under the

trees

they sat close their knees touching

again

every village has a local doctor rachel

said

he cooks plants and roots to make his

medicine

he calls up spirits to help with all

sorts of problems

these doctors are my enemies

i’m a threat to their religion

they attack christians

in a village down the river i had a

small school where i taught reading and

writing it was for the christians but it

was also open to anyone

a year ago we had malaria and three

people died

the local doctor told the village chief

that the people were sick

because of my school

they were being punished

the school is now closed

the parents of the girl who died are

christians

the local doctor said he could have

saved the girl but the parents didn’t

call him

he blamed me for her death

and he blamed god

during the funeral today he began

dancing and singing i couldn’t finish

the service

voice cracked slightly and she bit her

lip

she couldn’t cry in front of the indians

she had to be strong all the time

but she could cry with nate

and he would

understand i think you should go now she

said suddenly

i think i saw a case of malaria in the

other village today mosquitoes carry it

and it spreads quickly

trust me nate i’ve had malaria twice and

you don’t want it the second time almost

killed me

it never occurred to nate that she might

die

if she died it would take years to

settle the feeling of state

and he admired her greatly she was

everything he wasn’t strong and brave

happy with a simple life

don’t die rachel he said

you’re a good man

you have a good heart

and a good mind

you just

need some help

i know

i’m not very strong

he had the papers in his pocket

can we discuss these

she read the will slowly

troy didn’t care for his other children

she said

as they moved away he waved at rachel

and the indians

at the first turn in the river he

glanced over his shoulder

rachel and the indians hadn’t moved

he was sweating even though it was cool

his arms and legs were wet i’m sick he

thought

jv noticed him and after a few minutes

said nate

are you okay

he shook his head no and pain shot from

his eyes to his spine

jv

i think i have malaria

how do you know

rachel warned me

she saw it in the other village

yesterday

that’s why we left today

i have a fever

and i can’t see

jv stopped the boat and shouted to the

indians

he quickly unrolled the tent

you will feel cold and shiver he said as

he worked

have you had malaria

no but most of my friends have died from

it

what

bad joke

it doesn’t kill many but you will be

very sick

moving gently keeping his head as still

as possible

nate lay down in the center of the boat

jv spread the tent over him and secured

it with two empty gas tanks

the indians were beside them

lako asked javy what was happening

nate heard the word malaria

then they left

twice the canoes slowed as the ipekas

discussed which fork of the river to

take

jv kept their boat 100 meters behind

he couldn’t see nate under the tent but

he knew his friend was suffering

locko was concerned about the american

what should i tell the missionary about

him he asked jv tell her he has malaria

nate heard their voices

the fever burned him from head to toe

his skin and clothes were wet

his mouth was so dry that it hurt to

open it

the storm followed them but didn’t catch

them

jv thought they would find welly in the

santa lora by dawn

the indians were tired and ready to stop

finally they found a spot and landed

locko explained that he’d been the

missionary’s assistant for many years

he’d seen lots of cases of malaria

he looked at nate a very high fever he

told jv

the fever would go away

but there would be another attack in 48

hours

the oldest guide began talking to laco

he translated for jv telling him to keep

in the center of the river

in two hours they would find the

paraguay

in korumba valdir called a doctor friend

and persuaded him to meet them at the

hospital

they raced through town in valder’s car

ignoring lights and signs

did you find the woman valdeira asked jv

what did she say

i don’t know

i didn’t really talk to her i think she

liked our friend back there

nate was curled tightly in the back seat

hearing nothing

the doctor studied the rash which began

at nate’s chin and stopped at his waist

he was covered with mosquito bites

looks like dengue fever he said after 10

minutes

because he was a rich american nate got

the best drugs in the hospital

the fever dropped a little

the sweating stopped

his temperature should fall soon the

doctor told the nurse

i’ll see him again early in the morning

nate was sleeping heavily when the nurse

took him into a room with five other

patients

he didn’t see the open sores the

uncontrolled shaking of the old man next

to him

he couldn’t smell the waste

like his father rex felin was good with

numbers

he realized that six law firms were

doing the same work

six firms fighting the same fight each

wanting a big slice of the pie it was

time for the family to get together

he decided to begin with his brother tj

the two brothers met in secret

rex began with a sneed story this is

enormous he said

it could make or break our lawsuit

snaid will say he was the only person

with dad when he wrote the will

he wanted five million but he only wants

half a million now

we’ll find some way not to pay him the

rest

we have six law firms all attacking the

same will and they all expect to get

rich when we settle

how much are your boys getting

how much is hark getties getting troy

asked 25

mine wanted 30. we agreed on 20.

troy jr was proud that he’d made a

better deal than rex let’s play with

numbers rex continued

imagine we hire sneed and he says all

the right things

the estate wants to settle

we each get

maybe 20 million five goes to heart

getties four goes to your boys that’s

nine

so we get 31.

but if we join up

then hark will cut his fee we don’t need

all these lawyers tj

i hate heart gettys why don’t we fire

him and stick with my chapter 11

a new beginning

it was the middle of the night when nate

finally woke up

he robbed his sore eyes

his forehead was very hot

he was thirsty and couldn’t remember his

last meal

in the darkness of the room somebody

moved from bed to bed

finally stopping beside nate’s

she touched him gently on the arm

nate

she whispered

it’s rachel

rachel

he whispered

i’m here nate

god sent me to protect you

he reached for her

and she took his hand

you are not going to die nate she said

god has plans for you

he could say nothing

slowly his eyes adjusted and he could

see her

it’s you

he said or was it another dream

he rested his head on the pillow

his muscles relaxed and his joints

became loose

the heat left his forehead and face

and he fell into a deep sleep

he dreamed of girls in white dresses

floating in the clouds above him

they sang songs he’d never heard before

but they somehow seemed familiar

he left the hospital at noon the next

day against his doctor’s advice

no one had seen rachel at the hospital

nate had whispered his secret to jv who

would ask the nurses

after lunch javi began walking through

town on foot searching for her

no one seemed to know anything about a

white woman arriving from the pantanal

in valder’s office

nate phoned josh stafford

the favor is gone he said

i’ll come home in a couple of days

okay

tell me about the woman

she’s not interested in the money

you can’t talk this woman into anything

i tried got nowhere

so i stopped

nobody walks away from this kind of

money nate

couldn’t you talk some sense into her

no josh

she is the happiest person i’ve ever met

perfectly content to spend the rest of

her life working among her people

it’s where god wants her to be

she signed the papers

no sorry boss i tried to make her sign

them she’ll never sign them

jamie found no trace of rachel

and he began to doubt his friend’s story

dengue makes you see things makes you

hear voices makes you believe in ghosts

nate searched until the end of the week

he walked the streets

watched the crowds

checked out hotels and sidewalk cafes

and saw no one who looked like rachel

on his last day he stopped at valdir’s

office and collected his passport

they parted like old friends

and promised to see each other soon

they both knew it would never happen

jv drove him to the airport

he wanted to spend time in the united

states and asked for nate’s help

i’ll need a job he said

nate listened with sympathy

not certain if he himself was still

employed

i’ll see what i can do he said

the lady in the seat next to him on the

plane ordered a beer nate studied the

can

not anymore he told himself

he closed his eyes and asked god to give

him strength

he ordered coffee

hours later the plane dropped through

the clouds

in washington the earth was covered with

heavy snow

josh was waiting for him

i thought you could stay at our place

for a couple of days he said thanks

how do you feel

i’m fine

a little weak that’s all

they rode in silence for a while

traffic was slow

then nate announced

i’m not going back to the office josh

those days are over

why

let’s just say i’m tired

back at the house he told josh about his

adventures in the pantanal

he talked about rachel and described her

in great detail

he used her exact words when he talked

about the money in the papers

if she won’t take the gift from troy’s

will the money remains in his estate

josh said

if however the heirs can prove troy was

crazy then there is no will

all seven of his children will share

equally in his estate

if rachel doesn’t want to share then her

money will be divided by the other six

they’ll get a billion dollars each

why are we fighting for the will if

rachel says she doesn’t want the money

nate asked

first and most importantly my client

gave away his estate as he wanted

i want to protect his will

second i know how mr felin felt about

his children

he really didn’t want them to get their

hands on his money

i share his feelings i hate to think

what they do if they got a billion each

third

rachel could change her mind

we’re gonna fight nate but rachel needs

a lawyer

saint michael’s had a population of

thirteen thousand

there were stores on both sides of the

main street old buildings side by side

the house was on green street and had a

view of the harbor

the front yard was small and under

almost a meter of snow

nate parked his car and fought his way

to the porch

inside the house was neat and organized

josh said a woman came every wednesday

to clean

but there was no coffee

and this was the first emergency of the

day

nate locked the doors and went into town

it was sunday all the stores were closed

nate studied their windows as he walked

along

ahead the church bells began

nate went into the church

it was a handsome building

but there were few people inside

father phil lancaster a little man with

thick glasses and curly red and gray

hair stood at the front

they struggled through the songs and

prayers

father phil noticed nate sitting in the

last row when they exchanged smiles

sitting in the warm little church

safe from fevers and storms

safe from the dangers of the city

nate realized that he was at peace

god was pulling him in some direction

he wasn’t sure where

but he was no longer afraid

as he left the church father phil

grabbed nate by the hand welcome he said

welcome to trinity church

i’m nate o’reilly from washington

i’m staying in the stafford house for a

few days

nice to have you with us when did you

arrive

this morning are you alone

yes

then you must join us for lunch

my wife makes soup every time it snows

it’s on the stove now

please our house is just behind the

church

phil was already pulling nate’s arm

what brings you here he asked

it’s a long story oh

wonderful

laura and i love stories let’s have a

long lunch and tell stories

why not thought nate

there was no food at the house

at the back of the church laura was

turning off the lights phil introduced

her to nate she had short gray hair and

looked older than her husband

she wasn’t surprised to have a guest for

lunch

as they ate

nate told them about his trip to brazil

in his story the storms grew fiercer the

boats smaller the indians less friendly

when he finished the questions began

phil wanted to know about the missionary

her chapter 12

a letter to rachel

mary ross fired grit early monday

morning

her gettys now had three of the four

heirs from the first family

his percentage had dropped to seventeen

five but the sum he could earn was

enormous

he called a meeting to tell the other

lawyers

the back of wally bright’s neck turned

red with the news he would kill gettys

if he tried to steal libigale

stay away from my client he said loudly

we know the game you’re playing we’re

not stupid

sneed came in and hark introduced him to

the group

now the lawyers for the other side will

ask you a lot of questions first

so for the next hour or so assume that

we are the enemy

hark began asking questions sneed

handled them well and relaxed

then ms langhorne asked sneed about the

felon families

did you know about rachel lane she asked

i haven’t thought about that sneed said

what do you think he asked mr gettys

hark was quick with the fiction

i guess that you knew everything about

mr phelan rachel was 10 or 11 when you

went to work for mr phelan

he tried to reach out to her over the

years but she would have nothing to do

with him so if he left her everything it

shows that he was crazy

sneed repeated and expanded the story

when he finished the lawyers were

pleased

they all began to help sneed find

answers for difficult questions

for three hours they built his story

then for two hours they tried to tear it

down

at one point he was nearly in tears

when he was exhausted they sent him home

and told him to practice his answers

poor sneed drove home in his new car

he was determined to give them what they

wanted

nate planned to read and write through

the morning his plans were changed by a

phone call

are you busy father phil asked i’m at

the church working in the basement i

need some help

nate thought about the soup there was

plenty of it left

i’ll be there in 10 minutes he said

phil was measuring wood in the basement

i’m building six classrooms for bible

study he said

it was a big job and phil worked very

slowly and took plenty of coffee breaks

as they worked they talked

nate talked about some of his troubles

including the problems with the

government

what will you do phil asked

i have no idea

do you trust in god

yes i think so judge wycliffe entered

his office at 12 30.

josh tells me you found the richest

woman in the world he said

yes i did

about two weeks ago

and you can’t tell me where she is

she begged me not to i promised

will she appear in my court

she doesn’t have to josh explained she

knows nothing about mr phelan’s mental

state so she can’t be a witness

we can proceed with a lawsuit without

her

i need a letter from your client saying

that she’s seen the will and knows what

we’re doing

yes judge josh said

judge wycliffe began to ask questions

about rachel

questions were dangerous

wickliffe mustn’t know that rachel

didn’t want the money

josh interrupted you know judge this is

not a complicated case and everybody’s

anxious

why can’t we start the lawsuit as soon

as possible get all the lawyers in one

room now and make them produce a list of

witnesses and documents

then set a trial date for 90 days time

what about you mr o’reilly is your

client anxious to get the money

wouldn’t you be anxious judge nate asked

and they all laughed

that night nate began a letter to rachel

he had the address of world tribes in

houston he would mark the letter private

and address it to rachel lane

someone at world tribes knew who and

where she was

there must be some way to contact her

he wrote the date then

dear rachel

an hour passed and he tried to think of

words that would sound intelligent

finally he started writing about the

snow

did she miss it from her childhood

there was half a meter on the ground

outside his window

he told her that he was acting as her

lawyer and explained what was happening

about the will

he told her about father phil and the

church and the basement

he was studying the bible and enjoying

it

he was praying for her

when he finished the letter was three

pages long

nate read it twice

and thought she’d like it

if she received it he knew she’d read it

again and again

nate wanted to see her again

the story appeared in the newspapers on

friday morning

it said that rachel lane was acting

through her lawyer mr nate o’reilly to

fight the people who were contesting her

father’s will

mr o’reilly had tracked down rachel lane

shown her a copy of the will

discussed the various legal issues with

her and become her lawyer

the felon lawyers were astonished by the

news the brown envelope was sent to the

desk of neva collier organizer of south

american missions

it was addressed for rachel lane

missionary in south america personal

inside was a letter addressed to whom it

may concern

and a smaller envelope

never read the letter aloud

enclosed is a letter to rachel lane

one of your missionaries in brazil

please send it to her i met rachel about

two weeks ago i found her in the

pantanal

the purpose of my visit was a legal

matter

she is doing well

i promised rachel that i would not tell

anyone where she is

she does not want to be disturbed with

any more legal matters and i agreed to

her request

she needs money for a new boat and

medicines

i will gladly forward a check to you

i want to write to rachel again please

let me know that you sent her this

letter thanks

nate o’reilly

it wasn’t easy to reach rachel

twice a year on march 1st and august 1st

world tribes sent packages to the post

office in corumba

these included medical supplies

christian literature and anything else

she needed

the post office held the packages for 30

days

if rachel didn’t collect them they were

returned to houston

this never happened

every august rachel went to korumba and

called the world tribe’s office

in march the packages were sent up the

river on a boat and left at a farm near

the mouth of the zekko river

locko collected them

in 11 years rachel had never received a

personal letter

neva copied nate’s phone number and

address

then hid the letter in a drawer she

would send it in a month with the usual

supplies for march

nate was in bed when the phone rang the

female voice said

nate o’reilly please

this is nate o’reilly

good evening my name is neva collier

i received your letter i will send

rachel’s letter to her

thank you i’d like to write to her again

have you heard from her recently

no

rachel had been in korumba two weeks

earlier he knew this because she’d come

to the hospital she’d spoken to him

touched him

then disappeared

but she hadn’t called the world tribe’s

office

how strange

why did you find her neva collier asked

you’ve seen the newspapers you

understand what her father did

somebody had to explain what was

happening and it had to be a lawyer

you mentioned chapter 13

the lawsuit

first stage of the lawsuit began on

monday february 17th

all the people who wanted to fight troy

phelan’s will had to declare their

interest

nate could question them to see if they

were acceptable witnesses

nate didn’t want to spend two weeks in a

room full of lawyers

his attitude changed when he met the

feeling heirs

the first witness was mr troy phelan jr

nate introduced himself

are you currently under the influence of

any drugs or alcohol he began pleasantly

i am not troy jr said angrily

which one is your lawyer nate asked

waving at the crowd opposite

heart gettys

the lawyers were annoyed

nate hadn’t learned which lawyers

represented each client it showed that

he didn’t respect them

how many wives have you had

how many of you had junior shot back

let me explain something to you mr

phelan nate said

i will say this very slowly

so listen carefully

i am the lawyer

you are the witness

i ask the questions

you give the answers

now let’s try again how many wives have

you had

an hour later they finished with his

marriages his children his divorce

junior was sweating and wondering when

it would end

nate used one question to lead to

another no detail was too small for him

to investigate

the afternoon was even harder

nate asked about the five million

dollars troy jr received on his 21st

birthday

how was the money given to you nate

asked it was placed in an account in a

bank

how did you get the money from the

account by writing checks

he wrote a lot of them

troy jr never returned to college after

he received the money he simply partied

nate revealed that troy jr didn’t work

for nine years he played golf and

football bought cars spent a year in the

bahamas and lived in a grand style until

his money ran out

then he crawled back to his father and

asked for a job

nate talked about what troy jr did after

his father died

you bought two expensive porsches on

credit

now two months later you haven’t paid a

dime

you owe money for furniture american

express wants more than fifteen thousand

dollars a bank is taking you to court

because you owe them money correct

the witness nodded

libigale came in early on friday morning

nate asked about her 5 million and under

pressure she told stories of good drugs

and bad men

she now lived with an ex-biker and

ex-addict called spike

what would you do

if you got one-sixth of your father’s

estate nate asked

buy lots of things she said

but i would be smart with the money this

time real smart

what’s the first thing you would buy

the biggest motorcycle in the world for

spike then a nicer house

her eyes danced as she spent the money

mary ross felin jackman followed

the early questions revealed that she

took her 5 million and lived in italy

for three years

at 28 she married a doctor and had two

girls

it wasn’t clear how much of the money

was left

they lived well but were heavily in

debt ramble came in after lunch

after a few questions it was obvious

that he was as stupid as he looked

he said that he seldom went to school

lived alone in a basement like to play

the guitar and plan to be a rock star

soon

he played no sports had never seen the

inside of a church

spoke to his mother as little as

possible and watched mtv when he was

awake and not playing his music

gina was the last witness of the week

four days after her father’s death she

and her husband had signed a contract

for a 3.8 million dollar house

how do you plan to pay for the home nate

asked

the answer was obvious but she couldn’t

confess it

we have money she said

let’s talk about your money he said with

a smile

you’re 30 years old

nine years ago you received five million

dollars

how much is left

she struggled with the answer for a long

time

but finally admitted that there was only

two hundred thousand dollars in her bank

account

her husband cody had invested millions

in bad business deals

as nate left the city that night he

thought about the feeling heirs

he felt sorry for them for the way they

were raised

but he knew that in their hands the

money would cause pain and unhappiness

it was late when he arrived in saint

michael’s and as he passed the church he

wanted to stop go inside kneel and pray

to god to forgive him for the sins of

the weak

the next day nate sat with phil on the

front steps of the stafford house

i’m planning a trip he said quietly

i need to see my kids

i have to at 8 30 on tuesday morning

sneed came into the courtroom

the lawyers had been coaching him for

weeks

it was important that the judge believed

his stories

josh had known sneed for many years mr

phelan often talked about getting rid of

him

josh guessed that he was being paid to

give evidence and had discovered that

sneed now had an expensive apartment and

a new car

snead was ready

if nate asked him whether he was being

paid to appear sneed would lie about the

half a million dollars he had already

received and the promise of a further

four and a half million

nate introduced himself and then asked

loudly

mr sneed how much you being paid to give

evidence in this case

sneed thought the question would be are

you being paid not how much

he looked wildly at heart getting

mr o’reilly seemed to know everything

the feel and lawyers shrank in their

seats

how much are you being paid

nate asked again

five hundred thousand dollars sneed

admitted

have you already received this money

snaid didn’t know whether to lie or tell

the truth so he said

yes

half a million now how much later nate

asked

anxious to start lying snead answered

nothing

who paid you this money

the lawyers for the billionaires

did you go to them or did they go to you

i went to them

finally snead was on familiar territory

i was with mr phelan before he died and

i knew the poor man was out of his mind

how long did you work for mr phelan

30 years

and you knew everything about him right

yes

and you didn’t tell anyone that he was

crazy

snaid thought he was doing well it was a

private matter

until now

until they offered you half a million

dollars right

snaid could not think of a quick reply

in the last 14 years of his life mr

phelan wrote 11 wills

in one of them he left you a million

dollars did you tell anyone then that he

was crazy

it wasn’t my job to tell

nate continued to question him

late in the afternoon he suddenly asked

did you sign a contract with the lawyers

when you took the half a million

a simple no would have been enough

but sneed hesitated looked at hark and

then looked at nate

uh

of course not he said

nobody believed him

nicolette the secretary lasted for eight

minutes

she was 23 with few qualifications

except for a nice chest a pretty chapter

14

the settlement

at the end of the week nate left the

city

he was exhausted from nine days of

questioning the feel and heirs he felt

ashamed he pitied the feeling children

he felt sorry for sneed a sad little man

who just wanted to survive

two days later nate arrived in salem

where his kids from his second marriage

lived with their mother christy and her

new husband theo

the last time he saw them nate was drunk

and fought with his ex-wife in the front

yard while the children watched

theo had threatened him with a shovel

nate later woke up in his car in the

parking lot of a mcdonald’s with six

empty beer cans on the seat beside him

he called christy four hours before he

arrived at their home

christie it’s me nate he said

i’m in oregon i’d like to see the kids

maybe tonight tomorrow

well sure nate i guess we can work

something out but the kids are very busy

you know school dance class soccer

how are they

they’re doing very well we love oregon

they agreed to have dinner the following

night

that gave her enough time to prepare the

kids

theo decided to work late

nate kissed angela austin just shook

hands

christy stayed in her bedroom for an

hour while their father got to know his

children again

dinner lasted an hour

at seven o’clock nate said he had to go

i have a soccer game tomorrow dad austin

said and nate’s heart almost stopped

he couldn’t remember the last time he’d

been called dad

it’s at the school angela said could you

come

nate didn’t know what to say

christy settled the issue

i’ll be there we could talk she said

of course i’ll come he said

the children kissed him

driving away nate suspected christy

wanted to see him two days in a row to

examine his eyes she knew the signs

nate stayed in salem for three days

he watched his son play soccer and was

full of pride

he was invited back to dinner but agreed

to come only if theo joined them

he had lunch with angela and her friends

at school

he left salem with a broken heart

how could a man lose such a wonderful

family

he remembered almost nothing about the

kids when they were smaller

no school plays christmas mornings trips

to the mall

now they were almost grown

and another man was raising them

daniel his oldest child

met nate in a bar near the university

he was waiting with a girl

both were smoking and had bottles in

front of them

this is staff daniel said she’s a model

the first thing nate noticed about steph

was her gray lipstick applied heavily to

her thick lips

she was certainly thin enough to be a

model

nate disliked her immediately you want a

beer daniel asked

no just water nate said

daniel shouted at the waiter

how’s school nate asked i dropped out

daniel was angry and tense the girl was

there for two reasons

she would prevent hasty words in a fight

nate suspected that his son had no money

that he wanted to punish his father for

lack of support

he was afraid though because nate was

weak and might start to slide again

steph would keep a hold on his anger and

his language

the second reason was to make the

meeting as short as possible

why did you drop out of school nate

asked it was boring

he ran out of money steph said helpfully

nate wanted to pull out his checkbook

and solve the kids problems that’s what

he’d always done

but now daniel was 23

and it was time for him to sink or swim

on his own

it’s good for you nate said

work for a while it’ll make you

appreciate school

after four drinks steph was drunk and

daniel and nate had nothing else to say

he wrote down his phone number at st

michael’s and gave it to daniel

this is where i’ll be for the next

couple of months

call me if you need me

see you daniel said

take care

two days later he was in pittsburgh for

his third and final meeting with his

children

it didn’t happen

he’d spoken twice to caitlin and the

details were clear she said she’d meet

him for dinner at 7 30 at the restaurant

in his hotel

she called him at 8 30 and said that a

friend had been involved in an accident

she was at the hospital

nate suggested that they have lunch the

following day

caitlyn said that she couldn’t her

friend had a head injury and she planned

to stay with her until she was stable

she couldn’t see nate she couldn’t leave

the hospital

did she hate him so much

in a lonely hotel room in a city where

he knew no one

it was easy to pity himself

he grabbed the phone and got busy he

called phil to check on things at st

michael’s he called sergio

he felt surprisingly under control

his hotel room what does rachel lane

plan to do with the money one of the

lawyers asked

i’m not sure

josh said as if he and rachel discussed

it every day

she’ll probably keep a little and give

most of it to charity in my opinion

that’s what troy wanted

he knew that if your clients got the

money it wouldn’t last 90 days by

leaving it to rachel he knew it would be

passed on to people in need

we can take this lawsuit to the highest

courts langhorne said does she realize

this could take years

she does josh said

that’s why she would like to discuss

settlement possibilities

where do we start asked wally bright

for a long time they talked numbers

then josh said

nato riley has contacted his client she

will offer each of the six heirs 10

million dollars

the lawyers made rapid calculations hark

had three clients

17.5 percent gave him a fee of

5.25 million

wally bright would collect five million

from his contract with libigale and

spike

the other lawyers would collect two

million

wally spoke first

my client will settle for no less than

50 million

the others shook their heads too and

tried to look disgusted at josh’s offer

they talked about numbers for a while

then josh said

rachel lane is not a greedy woman

i think she might settle at 20 million

per heir

the lawyer’s fees doubled over 10

million for hark alone

poor wally at 10 million now suddenly

felt sick and asked to leave the meeting

nate was helping father phil when the

phone rang it was josh

it couldn’t have gone better i stopped

at 20 million they want 50.

50 nate said in disbelief

yes but they’re already spending the

money i bet two of them are at the

mercedes garage right now

we should complete the deal on wednesday

i can’t wait nate said

time for a coffee break

we meet the judge on wednesday nate told

phil

then i’m going back to the pantanal to

tell rachel what’s happened

are you excited

i don’t know

i want to see her but i’m not sure she

wants to see me she’s very happy and she

doesn’t want any part of this world

then why do it

because if she rejects the money again

the other side gets everything

but you’ve already said that rachel

won’t take the money she’s not going to

change her mind phil said

no

never

so the trip down is a waste of time

i’m afraid so

but at chapter 15

return to the pantanal

on friday afternoon phil drove nate to

the baltimore washington airport in nine

hours he would be in kurumba

he and josh had written a trust document

for rachel

the money she received would be placed

in a trust named the rachel trust

the money itself wouldn’t be touched

but the trustees could invest it and use

the profits for charity work

if rachel wanted she would never see or

touch the money

it would take only a quick signature and

the feel and estate would be closed

if she didn’t agree to sign

then she must write a letter to say that

she didn’t want the money

she could decline the gift but she had

to tell the court

the law would then give the money to the

felon

children how would she react when he

arrived

he hoped that she would be delighted to

see him but he wasn’t sure

he remembered her waving to his boat as

he left

she was standing among her people waving

him away

saying goodbye forever

she didn’t want to be bothered with the

things of the world

valdere had hired a helicopter which

took him to the trading post in the

pantanal his old friends jv and welly

were waiting for him on the ground

time was precious

nate feared storms darkness floods and

mosquitoes and he wanted to move as

quickly as possible

nate and jv quickly climbed into the

boat and set off

jv thought it would take them three

hours to reach the indian settlement

the trees on both sides of the river

grew thicker

and nate began to recognize the

territory

finally they stepped off the boat where

rachel had waved goodbye

a young indian ran toward them he told

him to stay there by the river until

further orders he seemed scared

as they waited javy talked about his

efforts to find rachel and korumba

i tell you he said

i have listened to people on the river

and the lady did not come

she was not in the hospital you were

dreaming my friend

nate didn’t want to argue

he wasn’t sure himself

a mosquito circled nate’s hand he wanted

to crush it but instead he waited

would his super repellent work

his ears neck and face were covered in

oil

the mosquito made a sudden dive toward

the back of his hand then stopped

it pulled away and disappeared

a second attack of dengue would probably

kill him

nate wasn’t taking any chances

when the chief came back he was alone

they followed him for 50 meters

then moved behind the huts on another

trail

nate could see the area around the

village it was empty

there was not a single ipica walking

about

no children were playing no women were

cooking and cleaning

there was no sound

the only movement was the smoke from

their fires

then he saw faces at the windows

they were being watched

the chief kept them away from the hots

as if they were carrying diseases

he turned onto another trail one that

led through the woods for a few moments

when they came to the end of it

they were near rachel’s hut

there was no sign of her

the chief led them past the front door

and to the side

under the thick shade of the trees

they saw the graves

the matching white crosses were made of

wood they were small and stuck into the

fresh dirt at the far end of both graves

the chief began talking

the woman is on the left

lakko is on the right

jb translated

malaria has killed ten people since we

left

the chief went on talking

nate looked at the pile of dirt on the

left

rachel lane was buried there

the bravest person he’d ever known

because she had no fear of death

she welcomed it

she was at peace

her soul finally with god

her body lying forever among the people

she loved

she wouldn’t want anyone to be sad

she wouldn’t approve of tears

and nate had none to give her

he’d hardly known her but his heart

ached anyway

he’d thought about her every day since

he left the pantanal

he dreamed about her felt her touch

heard her voice remembered her wisdom

she’d taught him to pray

and given him hope

he’d never met anyone like rachel lane

and he missed her greatly

the chief says we can’t stay long jv

said

the spirits blame us for the malaria it

arrived when we came the first time they

are not happy to see us

he has something to show you

slowly nate followed the chief into

rachel’s hut

the chief pointed to a box on a small

table

there are things in that box for you

jb translated

for me

yes

she knew she was dying she asked the

chief to guard her hut

if the american came then show him the

box there was a second letter typed and

written in portuguese

nate read the will again january 6th was

the day he walked out of the hospital in

korumba she wasn’t a dream

she’d touched him and told him he

wouldn’t die

then she’d written her will

nate gave the second letter to jv and

told him to read it

it’s from a lawyer

jb said

he says he saw rachel lane porter sign

her testament in his office in columba

she was mentally okay

and she knew what she was doing

it is signed by some other people as

well

they stepped into the sunlight

the chief had his arms folded over his

chest he wanted them to leave

nate removed the camera from his bag and

took pictures of the hot and the graves

he made javy hold her will while he

knelt by her grave

they found the trail and headed for the

woods

as the trees grew thicker nate turned

for one last look at her hut

he wanted to take it with him somehow

transport it to the states and preserve

it then the millions of people she

helped would have a place to say thanks

but that was the last thing she would

want

the chief said something as they got

into their boat

he says he doesn’t want us to come back

jv said

tell him he has nothing to worry about

the chief was already walking away

toward his village

nate wondered if he missed rachel

she’d been there for 11 years

was he sorry she was gone

or was he relieved that his gods and

spirits now ruled again

what would happen to the epicas who were

christians now

jv stopped the motor and guided the boat

with a paddle the current was slow and

the water was smooth

nate carefully opened the satellite

phone

within two minutes he was talking to

josh

tell me she signed the letter josh

shouted you don’t have to shout josh i

can hear you sorry

tell me she signed it

she signed a letter but not ours

she’s dead josh

she died two weeks ago malaria

she left a will just like her father

do you have it

yes it’s safe

everything goes into a trust i’m the

trustee

what happens now

nothing happens josh said

troy phelan’s will is paid out his

estate goes to rachel

it happens all the time in car accidents

the husband dies one day then the wife

dies the next day

the money goes

you

第 1 章

最后一天

这是最后一天

即使是最后一个小时 现在

我是一个老人

孤独和不被爱

生病、受伤

和厌倦了生活

我已经准备好迎接死亡

它必须比这更好

我拥有这座高大的玻璃

建筑土地 围绕它和在

这里工作的 2000 人

我在肯尼亚拥有内华达州的白银

咖啡

在安哥拉

拥有煤炭 我的公司拥有

发电、

制造计算机和印刷书籍的企业

我的价值超过 110 亿

美元 钱

是我最大的

问题 有三个家庭 三个前妻

有七个孩子

他们今天聚集在这里，

因为我快死了

，是时候分钱了

我不在乎谁得到钱，

但我非常关心谁没有

我的第一任妻子是莉莲，

我们年轻时就结婚了，

我 24 岁，她 18 岁

，有四个孩子

美元在他 21 岁生日那天

跑了

tj 的弟弟 rex 44

岁

对一个医生来说，

他想变得超级富有，

但他们负债累累

所有莉莲的孩子都一样，

他们负债累累，失业

，他们想要我的钱

，莉莉安之后我嫁给了我的秘书

珍妮，

一个比我年轻 22 岁的漂亮年轻人

她有两个

孩子，年幼的罗基

和他的两个朋友在车里被杀

她的女儿吉娜嫁给了一个傻瓜

，三年内可能损失 50 亿美元

我在 60 岁时嫁给了泰拉 每个

家庭都聘请了心理医生

名字印在

他们面前的卡片上

zedell 博士 弗洛

博士

泰森博士

我研究他们的眼睛和面孔

他们认为我疯了

但我要证明他们错了

乔什斯塔福德在说

我的名字 乔什·斯塔福德和我是

特洛伊·费兰先生的律师

这个房间里的精神科医生会

检查费兰先生，

如果他们认为他完全神志正常，

然后他打算签署一份新的

遗嘱 斯塔福德用铅笔

轻敲摆在我们面前的厚厚的遗嘱

我的家人避风港 没有看过遗嘱，

所以他们只能猜测里面的内容

他们相信这笔钱

将公平地分配给孩子们，并

给我的前妻施舍礼物

他们的

考试 zadel 先去

phelan 先生 你能告诉我们日期 时间

和地点

我像个傻瓜一样把下巴放在胸前

想想这个问题

1996 年 12 月 9 日星期一

这个地方是我的

办公室 时间

大约

是下午 2 点 30 分 我说

你的办公室在哪里

mclean Virginia

他们问了很多问题

然后 taishan 说

你目前的身体状况如何

我生病了

我得了癌症

我的医生说我活不过

三个月

我能感觉到他们的

兴奋 谣言已被

证实 你是否受到毒品或酒精的影响

不

回扎德尔 费兰

先生 你有大约

110 亿美元 是的

是的

你打算今天签署一份新的遗嘱

是的 我愿意

是的 摆在

你面前的

遗嘱 确实会将

你的大部分财产留给你的孩子

你们所有人 第 2 章

troy phelan 的遗嘱

sneed 及时赶到阳台

上惊恐地尖叫

然后他无助地看着 phelan 先生

无声地倒地

越来越小直到他

撞到地上 sneed 难以置信地盯着

然后他开始哭

乔什斯塔福德是一步 在他身后，

目睹了大部分的跌倒

，他花了一两分钟

从震惊中恢复过来，再次开始像律师一样思考

，

他看着下面的家人

聚集在 phelan’s 尸体

然后他回到

房间相机仍然

开着面对它举起右手

发誓说实话

然后解释了他刚刚目睹

斯塔福德打开信封

并将黄色纸张

靠近相机 看到

是的，

我看到他签署了 snead 几秒钟前说过的签名，

他说这是他的最后

遗嘱吗？他称之为他的遗嘱？

他说完他告诉 sneed 离开房间 斯塔福德

转身

对着镜头看着

黄纸第一张是

斯塔福德对镜头说的一封信

这封信的日期是今天

1996 年 12 月 9 日星期一。

它是从 troy phelan

我会完整阅读

亲爱的乔希，

我已经死了，

这些是我的指示，我希望你

首先严格遵循它们，

我想快速检查一下我的

身体

，然后会有 没有葬礼，

我不想火化，我的骨灰

从空中散落在

怀俄明州的牧场上

第三我希望你保守我的遗嘱，

直到 1997 年 1 月 15 日。

法律不要求你立即出示遗嘱

再见

特洛伊斯塔福德小心地捡起 第二

张纸

这是一个单页文件

这是 troy l phelan 的最后遗嘱

我将阅读所有

troy l phelan

给我的每个孩子的最后遗嘱 troy phelan jr

rex phelan

libbergale jeter

mary ross jackman gina strong and

第二天说唱，斯塔福德遇到了

蒂普·德宾，他们一起开车去

麦克莱恩的法医办公室

，死因很明显，

法医说没有酒精或药物的痕迹，

也没有癌症的迹象

特洛伊在 他

死的时候有没有告诉你他得了癌症

德宾在开车回来时问斯塔福德

好几次

是的他为什么撒谎

谁知道

每个人都认为他快死了

他为什么跳楼

他是 av 每个孤独的老人

这似乎是一个讨厌的把戏 德宾说

他向他的家人许诺钱

精神科医生说他没有

疯

然后在最后一刻他签署了一份

不同的遗嘱

为什么他如此讨厌

他们 他们让他感到尴尬

他们与之战斗 他

他们从来没有赚过一分钱，

他们花了他数百万

金币中的许多钱从来没有打算把

任何东西

留在他的办公室里斯塔福德与

他的团队成员交谈

你必须找到一个

我怀疑

不想被发现的人

他告诉他们 他对

rachel Lane 的了解

没有太多

关于世界部落的第一次发现

他们是谁 他们是如何

运作的 他们

如何挑选他们的人

他们把他们送到哪里

一切都

了解她的母亲 evelyn

Cunningham

她已经死了 现在

了解 你能做的就是把

头疼到中午

然后喝了杯啤酒

他在他肮脏的公寓里走来走去

他找不到他的妻子

他和biff在

那天已经打了三场

他开了家 喝了杯啤酒，看着

大厅里的镜子里的自己

troy phelan jr 他说 troy

phelan 的儿子 身价 110 亿美元的美国第 10 大富豪

是的，

他穿着他最好的西装，那

是他昨天在亲爱的

老爸面对 精神科医生，

表演如此精彩

阿玛尼我来了

他高兴地吹口哨

前 20 年的生活一直是柔软

和奢华的，然后他收到了他的遗产

他的 500 万在他 30 岁之前就消失

了

，他的父亲因此恨他

我能做什么 十亿

美元 他在高速公路上开车时问自己

gina felin strong 30 岁，嫁给了

cody 的二号丈夫，

他有远大的梦想，

但六个月后，他的企业

蒙受了巨大

损失，在她

21 岁生日时给了 gina 缩小到不到一

百万

，他们的债务不断增加，然后特洛伊

从窗户跳

了下来，他们花了一上午的时间

在 swinx mill 寻找房屋，这是他们最伟大梦想的地方，

由 d usk 他们正在寻找

一栋价值四百五十万的空房子，

并认真考虑提出要约

rex

44 岁 tj 的兄弟

正在接受刑事

调查，一家银行倒闭了，

fbi 正在进行激烈的调查，

他现在欠了超过 700 万

美元 特洛伊死了 雷克斯可以

不用担心

他可以偿还债务并玩弄他的

钱

他整天都和哈克盖蒂斯 他的

律师

他急切地想要钱

他迫使盖蒂斯打电话给乔什斯塔福德

我们必须看看他会不会

对哈克大喊大叫 一整天，

哈克用一顿丰盛的午餐和美酒让他平静下来，

琥珀雷克斯的妻子路过

，发现他们俩都喝醉了

她没有生气

她

比以往任何时候都更

爱雷克斯现在哈克·盖蒂斯很兴奋老人

死了，他疯狂的家人是一个 律师的

梦想

这是他创办自己的

公司并赚大钱

的机会 互联网 世界

部落的传教总部设在

德克萨斯州休斯顿，

他们的目标是在世界各地传播基督教

，他们有 4 000 名传教士与当地人一起工作

巴西的 28 个印第安部落

接受世界部落传教士的服侍，

这些传教士接受了在美国

生活的培训 丛林语言

和医疗技能，

所以雷切尔住在小屋里

，睡在她自己盖的床上

，在火上做饭

她吃她种植或被困并

杀死的食物

，并向孩子和成年人讲圣经故事，

她一无所知 当然

，对世界的忧虑和压力

我们可能永远找不到她德班说

第三章

奈特的使命

奈特走到他的窗口看着

下面一千米的雪兰多山谷

它被新雪覆盖

他记得那几乎是

圣诞节和这个想法让他很难

过孩子们现在

要么长大要么被他们的

母亲带走 纳特想要的是

在酒吧里和其他醉汉

一起过另一个圣诞节 早餐是

他和护士

塞尔吉奥在过去四个月里喝的黑咖啡 塞尔吉奥

也是他最好的朋友

他对

纳特·奥莱利的悲惨生活

了如指掌 今天有一位客人，斯塔福德·

塞尔吉奥先生说，乔什很棒，

每个月都会去一次

，乔什到达时，纳特正在他的房间里休息，

你看起来很棒，乔什

说，你在做什么，我需要离开这里，

乔希，

你的医生说再过一两个星期就好

了，

那

还能做什么 我

没那么快回到公司，

你有几个问题，

我们可以处理破产，但这

仍然留下了你

从 1992 年到 1995 年的税收问题，

纳特没有报告大约 60

美元的其他

收入，那我是什么 应该做的 纳特问

你认为我会入狱

吗 特洛伊·费兰死

了

o

遗嘱第一个由我准备

第二个也是最后一个他自己写

然后他跳了

他把一切都留给了一个

私生女我从未听说过

我希望你找到她

我

是的

我们不知道她在哪里他做

了多少钱 税前大约 110 亿

她知道吗

不 她甚至不知道他死

了

10

天不着急

，她可能很难找到

该国西部靠近玻利维亚的哪个地区。

她为这个任务工作的任务说

phelan 案落到法官 f par wycliffe 的办公桌上，

他很高兴得到如此著名的

诉讼，

并打电话给 josh 斯塔福德介绍

自己

有没有遗嘱 威克利夫问是

的 有

遗嘱 什么时候发放钱

我有 乔希说

我的客户让我等到 1 月

15 日

为什么原因很简单

在他们发现他没有给他们留下任何东西之前花了很多钱

我不知道乔希说

遗嘱里有什么

我不能告诉你

我有点同情

威克里夫家人说

他们有权知道遗嘱的感觉 在

遗嘱中，

我认为我们应该在

12 月 27 日向他们宣读

乔希想笑

把他们聚集在一起

感受他们的律师和他们的新朋友

确保报纸知道这件事

他可以听到

感情受到考验时的哭泣和诅咒 为了理解

他们的父亲对他们做了什么，

乔希迫不及待地和我一起接受了 27 岁的罚款，他说好威克利夫说

我会让每个人都知道

有很多律师

，如果你记得有

六个孩子和三个前- 妻子们，所以有

九组主要律师

我希望我的法庭足够大

我建议你阅读遗嘱 乔希说

威克里夫打算对

他想象会发生什么

人们挤在一起

信封打开时一点声音都没有

将是他阅读遗嘱的最美好的时刻之一

，捐赠了

110

亿美元

我认为遗嘱很

有趣 法官说

这很

有趣 法官实际上

像往常一样微笑 乔希精心计划了

nate 的释放

他带着一袋子到达医院

衣服 护照 机票 和

大量现金

你感觉如何 乔希在他们

向南行驶时被问到

你能在最近的商店停下来吗

确定

我为什么要买些啤酒

非常有趣

我会为了一大杯可口可乐而死

car josh 说

你的航班去圣保罗然后

你会去一个叫做第 4 章的城市

进入 pantanal

valderruez 是一个愉快的人

，以大多数

巴西人倾向于的方式生活

他在他的小

办公室里高效地工作只有他和 一位秘书

他为自己的英语感到自豪

他制作了一张大的空中地图并

指向潘塔纳尔

没有道路或高速公路 超过 100 000

公里的沼泽地

在地图的西部边缘靠近博附近有四个红色 x livia

这里有部落

他指着标记对

nate 说他们有多大

更多，

但部落变小了

他们与外界几乎没有联系

他们的文化一

千年

没有改变 我们知道传教士在哪里

很难说

valdere 指着两个 x

这些是 guato

那里可能会 在这里做传教士

你必须明白

至少有 20 个不同的美国和加拿大

团体在巴西有传教士

进入我们的国家

很容易而且很容易四处走动

没有人真正关心那里的人以及

他们在做什么

内特指出 在 korumba

然后到最近的红色

x 坐飞机从这里到那里需要多长时间

从三到五天乘船大约一个小时

那么我的计划在哪里 e

这不是那么容易 valdeire 说

他指出

这些是养牛场

只有少数可以乘船到达

所以他们使用小型飞机

即使您飞入该地区也

必须乘船才能到达 印度人

飞机跑道有多好

他们都是草

有时他们会割草

有时他们不会

他向瓦尔迪尔表示感谢并离开了办公室 他

朝河边走去，发现一个

小

公园 下午晚些时候很潮湿

他的衬衫被汗水弄脏

并粘在胸前

瓦尔迪尔办公室发生的事情

吓坏了他

他坐在一个边上 野餐桌

，看着躺在他面前的巨大的潘塔纳尔

，

一位音乐家开始弹他的吉他

，太阳慢慢下沉

在不远处的玻利维亚山脉上空

，

一名飞行员同意飞行，

但他想离开耳朵 就

在中午之前回到卡伦巴，因为是

圣诞节前夕

valdir 雇了一个叫 jv 的向导

他 24 岁单身且强壮

他穿着

灌木帽 短裤 黑色军靴

和腰带上的闪亮小刀跑进了宫殿酒店

nate 喜欢他

他的卡车马上就旧了，但已经准备好进入

丛林了，

他们在科伦巴的街道上咆哮着，

在红灯时只略微放慢速度，

完全无视停车标志

jv 说话，他像赛车手一样握着方向盘，

内特没有听到一个字，

他的每一次心跳都停止了 新的

十字路口 机场

空无一人 飞行员的名字听起来像 milton

他很友好但很

明显他不想在圣诞节前一天飞行或工作

你觉得安全吗

nate 问 javi 当飞行员宣布

他准备好了

jv 笑了 并说没问题，

这个男人有四个小孩和一个

漂亮的妻子，他为什么要

冒生命危险 克伦巴紧挨着

他们在东方和北方，十几

条小河在周围旋转，

由于洪水而相互

穿过 河流在许多地方

汇合 西部是遥远

的玻利维亚

山脉 山脉之外的天空更暗

米尔顿下降到 4 000 米以留

在云层之下 他

担心黑暗 天空，

我们会看几分钟 jv 说

milton 想回家，

但 nate 至少想看看

印度的村庄，

他仍然抱有微弱的希望，希望他

能以某种方式飞去见 rachel 并

带她回到 Korumba

，在那里他们可以 在一家不错的

咖啡馆吃午饭，讨论她父亲的案子

雨滴开始击中第五

章 幻灯片

奈特醒来时

浑身是血 还在下雨

米尔顿和哈维躺在彼此身上，

但移动并挣扎着

从座位上站起来 奈特发现 一扇窗户，把头探了

出来，飞机

侧翻，机翼裂开，折叠在机舱下面

，到处都是血，但那是从母牛身上，而

不是乘客

身上，那个拿着棍子的男孩领着 他们

躲到暴风雨中的一个小马厩里，米尔顿

跪下开始祈祷，

他们在泥土里坐了很长时间，

看着下雨，

听着风，

想着什么可能

什么都没说

，一小时后，牛的主人马可

出现了 后来开始

与 jv 和

milton 就我要为这个生物付钱的牛的价值进行了热烈

的讨论 马克，

我会付钱的

他会付那么多钱来阻止马可

抱怨交易已经解决，

当他意识到纳特来自他派来的州时，他成为了他们的主人

一张

小

桌子 孩子们坐在桌子旁边的地板上

吃着面包和米饭 看着

内特所做的

一举一动 马可有一艘带马达

的小船 巴拉圭河有五个小时的路程

也许他有足够的汽油

也许他没有

三个人都在船上，不可能到达那里

jv 有一个计划

，当天空晴朗时，库鲁巴边缘有一个军事基地，

纳特

小心地

打开卫星电话的包装，打开

电源，信号很强

，马可和他 家人围在一起

他想知道他们是否见过一个电话

合资公司给一个朋友打电话，他找到了电话

号码

，然后他向一名军官解释了情况，

并在飞机失事后寻求帮助，

最后指挥官本人

来接听电话

他和 jv 在

他们去过他们认识的人的地方进行了五分钟的军事谈话

然后 jv 解释了发生的事情

没问题

嘿 valdir 挂断电话后

nate 起身在房间里慢慢走动

他看到废纸篓里的空啤酒罐

他 稍后会处理

这不是

他昨天差点死掉的幻灯片，

每天都在改变事情是一份礼物，现在

为什么不享受它的乐趣，

只是一点啤酒和葡萄酒，

没有什么比这更强大的了

我穿好衣服走进

镇上商店被锁着，

街道空无一人

他回到公园，在广阔的湿地的某个地方

俯视着他面前的伟大潘森娜在他面前是雷切尔莱恩

她很快就会成为最富有的人之一

世界上的女人

听到她好运的消息她会如何反应 可能的答案让他感到不安 他们对雷切尔·

伊芙琳·坎宁安了解甚少 她的母亲来自

路易斯安那州的德里小镇

19 岁时她搬到巴吞鲁日

并发现 在 troy phelan 的一家公司担任秘书的工作，

她是一位美丽的女人

，几个月内他从纽约一次访问时，troy 发现了她

出生于 1954 年 11 月。

伊芙琳从未见过她的孩子

特洛伊安排

一位牧师和他的

妻子在蒙大拿州迅速

私下收养瑞秋 拉尔斯

回到德里

她和父母一起搬进来

很少离开

家开始想念女儿

她给特洛伊写信

随着岁月的流逝

伊芙琳变得越来越沮丧

她于 1959 年 11 月 2 日

在瑞秋的家中自杀了 五岁生日时，

她开着父母的车到

镇

边跳下一座桥，

雷切尔是她的独生子，

她的养父莱恩先生

在她 17 岁时去世。

特洛伊在高中毕业时重新进入了她的生活，

也许他感到内疚

他担心她的大学

教育以及她如何负担得起

雷切尔知道她是被收养的，但

从未对她的亲生父母表现出兴趣

特洛伊在 1972 年夏天的某个时候遇到了雷切尔

。

第六章

法律挑战

第二天早上，合资公司开车到河边，

停在水边附近

santa lora 没有动

他很高兴看到 welly 已经

到

了 他还不到 18 岁，但声称他

可以煮飞行员指南清洁和

导航 吃了

jv 就知道他在撒谎

你见过 o’reilly 先生 jv

问美国人

没有他的迹象

jv 开车去市中心的酒店找到

nate

前台的女孩没见过

o’reilly 先生

她给他的房间打了电话 没有人回答

杰维说服她把钥匙给他

门被锁上了，但没有锁链

，杰维慢慢地走进来

他注意到的第一件事是空

床

然后他看到瓶子

一个是空的

，另一半是满的

他看到一只光着脚

然后迈步 走近看到 nate

躺在床和墙之间

javi 轻轻踢了他的脚，腿

动了起来，至少他还没有死

javy 把 nate 从地板上拉起来，

把他滚到床上，

他的眼睛肿了，仍然

疯狂地闭着头发 他的呼吸很慢

nate

jv 大声跟我说话

在浴室里没有反应 他用冷水弄湿了一条毛巾

然后把它缠在 nate 的脖子上

nate 张开嘴试图

说话

我在哪里

他说

他的舌头

在

巴西又厚又粘 你的酒店 房间

我或多或少还活着

jv 带着 nate 进了浴室 进

了淋浴间 他跌倒在

塑料地板上

我很抱歉 nate 一遍又一遍地说

jv 把他留在那儿然后下楼

去喝一壶浓

咖啡 两个当威利听到他们

来的时候

jv 停在岸边

没有美国人的迹象

然后一个头慢慢地从车里抬起来

眼睛被浓墨

遮住 帽子被拉得尽可能低

把

奥赖利先生救了出来，

他看上去病得很重

，白皙的皮肤被汗水湿透了

，他太虚弱了，

不能一个人走路。

纳特睡了四个小时，

圣洛拉慢慢地

向北行驶

，太阳开始落在后面

遥远的玻利维亚山脉 空气很

轻很

凉爽 水很高 jv 说我们回程会走得更快

他指着地图上的一个地方

第一个印度村庄在这个

地区 需要两天

或者三天

n 吃了不在乎

时间停止

了他的手表在他的口袋里

他欺骗了死亡所以现在每天

都是

礼物你还好吗jv问

我很好

我感觉很好

这次小旅行对我有好处

有一个 还有很多 jv 想问，

但 nate 还没准备好说话

他拿着乔希给他的文件回到吊床

上 他在他的胳膊和腿上涂上了驱虫剂，

然后开始

阅读法庭上挤满了

phelan 家族的成员和 他们的

律师 10 点钟 威克利夫法官进来

了，他

坐在法庭前面，

他沉默不语 每个人

第一份文件是由 rex phelan 提交的，

hark gettys 跳了起来，法官大人，

我是 hark geddes，他

大声说，我代表 rex felin 先生，

谢谢，请坐，

威克里夫围着桌子走，拿着

继承人的名字和他们的名字 律师

六堂 伊尔德伦 三个前妻

所有人都在场

22 位律师威克里夫对自己

说你有遗嘱吗 斯塔福德先生 他

问

乔希站着拿着文件 我有

没有代表特洛伊费伦威克利夫

问你是否为他准备了一份遗嘱

我准备了

几份 你是否准备了他的遗嘱 最后的遗嘱

有一个停顿随着

重罪犯靠得越来越近，它变得越来越长

不，

我没有

乔希慢慢地说，

这些话很轻，但它们

像雷声一样划破了空气

法庭变得安静

谁准备了他的最后遗嘱和遗嘱

wyclef问

phelan先生自己

哦 我的上帝的

心得到他的小声说

南美传教团的负责人是

一位名叫涅瓦·科利尔的女人，

她在新几内亚的山区工作了 11 年，

因此她

了解她组织的 900 人的活动所面临的挑战

，她是 唯一

知道瑞秋·波特曾经是瑞秋·

莱恩的人是特洛伊·费兰的私生女，

在医学院

瑞秋改名消灭她 因为

她没有

家人，养父母都去世了，

她只有特洛伊

，在完成世界部落的训练后，她不顾一切地要把他从

生活中除掉

当时在南美洲

，她坐在休斯顿内华的小而整洁的办公室里，

阅读了关于

费兰先生遗嘱的非凡记录，

因为

与雷切尔的自杀沟通缓慢，

他们每年三月交换两次邮件

，八月

雷切尔通常打电话给她一次。 1992 年，瑞秋最后一次度假的前一年，

她在库鲁巴打了一个公用电话，当时她和她

谈过

一次。

她对美国没有兴趣。

在一家酒店的一个大

房间里，桌子被匆忙

放在一个完美的正方形

里，房间里有 50 个人，

没有猫科动物在场 o 只有他们的法律

团队

hark gettys 开始了会议

他建议每位律师简要

说明他或她对诉讼的看法

勇气 mary ross phelan jackman 聘请的律师

和她的丈夫

站出来要求战争 我们必须挑战

意志 老人疯了

他 他跳楼身亡

，他把世界上最大的

财富之一给了一个不知名的继承人，这

对我来说听起来很疯狂，

我们可以找到精神病医生，他们会说

他疯

了，那三个

在他跳下之前检查过他的人呢？有人从桌子对面说，

那是 愚蠢的砂砾说

感觉欺骗了你，你们上当了 吉娜

和科迪强的法律团队负责人

是一个名叫朗霍恩的女人，

她赢得了第七章

鳄鱼和印第安人

纳特花了一上午的时间阅读

jv 和他一起喝

咖啡 那怎么办 你想到了潘塔纳尔他

问

它是多么的

壮丽你出生在这里

我第一次呼吸是在科伦巴的医院

但我出生在这些河流

这是我的家

你告诉我哟 你的父亲是一名河流领航员

是的，

当我还是个小男孩的时候，我一大早就开始

和他一起去，

那时每个人都

睡着了，

他会让我驾驶轮子，

我十岁时就知道所有主要河流

，他死在 这条河不是这条河，

而是东边的塔基里河

五年前，他正在引导一艘德国人的船，

当暴风雨袭击他们时，

只有水手还活着。

他安静了片刻，然后他

说很多人想摧毁那些

泛滥的

大公司 拥有大农场

他们正在

为他们的

庄稼清理大片土地 土壤不好，所以公司

使用化学品来种植农作物

，化学品进入了

他们流入河流

的水中 死

了 政府不帮助

合资企业

苦笑你听说过 Hydrovia

不

这是一条大沟

它将穿过潘塔纳尔海峡

连接巴西 玻利维亚 巴拉圭 阿根廷

和乌拉圭

它应该拯救南美洲 ica，

但它会耗尽 panthanal

并且我们的政府支持它

nate 想说一些深刻而

严肃的关于保护

环境的事情，

然后他想起他的同胞

以进步的名义摧毁了美国的大部分地区，

它仍然很漂亮 nate 说

有时我认为它对他们来说太大了，

无法摧毁

几个小时外有一个小贸易站

我们应该在天黑之前到达那里

费尔南多是主人，他听到

了河上的一切，

也许他会知道

传教士

jv 清空他的 咖啡杯和

伸开双臂

有时他有啤酒要卖

我认为

我们不应该买任何

他

跟我走得很好 我

想 nate

一瓶冷的棕色啤酒

很棒的啤酒

当葡萄牙

探险家佩德罗·阿尔瓦雷斯·加布拉尔

第一次踩到巴西人时他开始出汗 1500 年的土壤，

经过五个世纪的欧洲

文明，该国拥有 500 万印度人，

仅 27 万

苏尔 如果印第安人试图与欧洲人一起生活，

那将是一段病态

和暴力的历史

，如果他们与欧洲人作战，他们会染上奇怪的疾病并死去，

他们会被比毒箭更致命的武器杀死

他们是牧场主和橡胶农的奴隶，

他们有枪 将他们赶出

家园

牧师谋杀他们，军队追捕

他们

现在政府也是

敌人 1967 年负责印度事务的机构

使用化学武器杀死

印第安人

他们给印第安人衣服

用他们轰炸的飞机和直升机感染了疾病

1990 年代印第安村庄和有毒气体土地 政府希望

开放该地区到潘塔纳尔以北，

但印第安人仍然在阻碍

印第安人的虐待，因为

牧场主

在政府的支持下深入亚马逊 政府

nate 读了四个小时的这段悲伤的历史

然后去和 jv 喝咖啡

他问你有没有印度血统 ed

jv 笑了笑

我们所有人都有印度血统

你为什么要问

我一直在阅读巴西印第安人的历史

这很悲惨

你认为印度人

在这里受到了不好的待遇

当然他们现在

在你的国家有什么

好多了，恐怕奈特说

这不是他想讨论的问题

，当发动机停止时，天还是黑的

，奈特

很好地醒来，他正在装载小船，

三个大油箱

整齐地排列在船的中央

这些应该给我们 15 个小时 jv

解释

了定居点有多远 nate

问我不确定

jv 打包了一个小帐篷 两条毯子 两个

蚊帐 一些食物和瓶装

水

他打包的最后一件物品是一把

大刀这是给鳄鱼的 他笑着说

奈特试图无视它

奈特拿走了遗嘱的副本 两个小时

后，他们进入了一个大湖，里面

有十几条小河

蜿蜒曲折 jv 不知道哪个是 khabita

他们看到一个人在钓鱼

在湖边

几米开外的时候 jv

开始和他说话

最后他说再见 他们划船

走

了 他的母亲是印度 jv 说

离

这里

几个小时有一个定居点 几个小时

3

可能 nate 降低了船和

在食物盒和油箱之间的底部发现了一个地方

船减速

发动机故障不是他

担心的事情

突然 nate 真的很害怕

然后他们又熄火了 马达

轰鸣 好像什么都没发生过

它变成了

每隔 20 分钟例行一次，就在 nate

睡着的时候

电机的稳定节拍将停止

jv 与引擎一起玩，

然后再过 20 分钟一切都会好起来

解决的第一个迹象是

在他们离开太阳引诱 nate 看到七个小时后

在山脚附近的树上升起一条细细的蓝色烟雾

jv 确定他们在玻利维亚

地面更高，他们

靠近山脉

他们来到了树的缝隙 看到

两条独木舟

jv 把船引到银行

nate 急忙跳了出来 急着

伸腿 感觉地球

靠

得很近 jv 警告

nate 看着他

他们的目光相遇了 jv 朝树点点头

一个印度人在看着他们

一个棕色皮肤的男性 赤裸上身，

腰间挂着一条草裙

没有可见的武器

他有一头黑色的长发，

额头上有红色的条纹

他非常可怕 他是不是很

友好 奈特眼睛不移地问

这个人

我

想他会说葡萄牙语

我不会

不知道你为什么不去看看

放松一下 jv 从船上下来

他看起来他想吃你 他

低声说

nate 不开心

jv 和印度人说话但很

明显他不会说葡萄牙语 他

看起来很年轻可能 不到二十岁

，印第安人身后有动静

，他的三个部落成员出现了，

他们不是友好的人，没有

微笑或问候，

一个年轻的女性突然

从树上出现，站在第一个

印第安人

她旁边 也是棕色的，赤着胸

印第安人是 guatto 不喜欢

与外人接触

他们在小块土地上种植食物 在

河流中钓鱼并

在一个小时后用弓箭打猎 他

爬上靠近船的一棵树 纳特

加入了

他们 可以看到三个小屋的顶部

他离雷切尔莱恩这么近

她现在在那里听她的

人并决定做

什么 她会派一个印第安人把他们带来

还是她会简单地穿过

树林打个招呼

你觉得怎么样 他们在做 他问 只是说得

很好 我们需要尽快离开

我们在八个半小时前离开了船

我想在天黑前看到 Welly

没问题

我们会顺流回去

我知道它的方式

回到地面会快得多 纳特已经

坐到船上睡觉了 当 jv 看到

印第安人

他们慢慢靠近他们酋长身后的河流

他拿着一根长棍子

看起来并不锋利或

危险 酋长指挥他的 jv 的评论

你为什么在这里 他用葡萄牙语问

他的脸不友好但他不

咄咄逼人

我们正在寻找一位美国

传教士 一个女人

jv 解释说

我们来自库鲁巴

这个男人是美国人 他需要

找到 女人

为什么他需要找到那个女人

她有危险

吗 这是印度人可能知道瑞秋莱恩的第一个暗示

不

她不在这里

你见过附近有一位女传教士

吗 jv

一开始没有回应

然后是 微微

点头 男人指着

北方和西方的某个地方

她和另一个部落在一起 jv 问

watto 男人说

jv 一天有多远 打开两张地图并把它们摊在

地上 印度人很好奇 酋长

告诉 jv 他们没有 没有上 khabita 他们在

guato 河上拐错

弯了

jv 小声告诉 nate

nate 纳特担心

他把自己的生命托付给 jv

印第安人互相讨论

他们无法就

到达 史诗

最后他们再次转向合资公司

在山的边缘有一个史诗般的定居点 合资公司翻译了

第八章

传教士

流 阿黛尔和泰森 宣布特洛伊疯了的三位

精神病医生

被解雇了

新的精神病医生被发现

arcgettis 三点钟买了第一个

一百美元一

小时 继承人无法向律师支付高额的小时费

，所以律师同意

从最终

和解中

提取 hark 想要的 40%，

但他和 rex 最终同意 25

%

，从 mary ross phelan jackman 身上挤出 25

获胜者是

沃利·布莱特，他坚持要求一半的利比盖勒

和解

没有一个重罪继承人问他们

是否在做正确的事情 他们信任

他们的律师

没有人可以承受被排除在外的

后果，因为哈克是

他引起注意的重罪律师中最响亮的

sneed 自从他自杀以来没有人注意到 sneed

宣读遗嘱时他

坐在法庭上 他的脸伪装成

su 眼镜和一顶帽子，

他流着泪留下

他讨厌孩子们的感觉，因为

多年来特洛伊讨厌他们，斯内德被迫

做许多不愉快的事情来保护

特洛伊免受家人的伤害，

而作为回报，

费兰先生什么也没有给他留下任何

气味 多年以来，老人曾

许下许多承诺来照顾斯内德

他知道他是在一份遗嘱中被命名的

他亲眼看到了这份文件

他将

在费兰先生去世时继承 100 万美元，而当时费兰

先生的身价为 30

亿美元 斯尼德记得

他偶尔会问起这件事，觉得一百万似乎太小了，

但费兰先生诅咒了他，

威胁说要把他彻底断

了 从一百万到零

，他很苦恼

他会加入敌人只是因为

他别无选择

他去了哈克盖蒂的

办公室接待员解释说

盖蒂先生很忙

所以我很生气回答粗鲁地

给他这个 信封很急，我要

等十分钟，然后我会

沿着街走到下一个律师

事务所 信封里有一张纸条，上面写着

我为 troy phelan 工作了 30 年

我知道一切

malcolm

sneed hark

立即出现 大

办公室 黎明时分 水流很强 所以他们

在太阳升起时跟着它移动

唯一的声音是水流的声音

我想我们迷路了 不是我们说

我知道我们在哪里

我们在哪里 panthenal

和所有河流都流向巴拉圭

jv 试图在第五

极启动电机 电机被抓住

然后死了

我会死在这里 nate 对自己说

我要么淹死要么被吃掉

令他们惊讶的是他们听到了一声

喊叫 一个不超过 15 岁的孩子乘着

一艘小

独木舟向他们走来，在他说什么之后进行了长时间的

懒散

交谈

一侧的状态感觉

桌子和这个小男孩在另外

10 美元 jv 又一次简短的讨论后说

10 美元可以，他们将被

送到 rachel Lane

他们在独木舟上跟着男孩

20 分钟，直到他们进入一条小的

浅水流

，当他们几乎是一个小溪时 来到

地势较高的

地方，男孩似乎不敢再

往前走，他告诉

纳特给了他钱，他们感谢

他，男孩顺流而回，

很快就消失

了。 water

nate 觉得他们好像被监视着

他等待着

身着战绘的印第安人用致命的箭攻击并

训练杀死任何白脸的人，

但他们首先看到孩子们

快乐的棕色小身体在母亲们洗澡

的水中溅起水花

jv 停下引擎，开始说话

，面带微笑

一个年长的女孩朝定居点跑去

几分钟内三个男人就到

了 最年长的那个说他说 jv 的

语言

几分钟后，纳特说

翻译，那女人

怎么办，别着急，我还在努力

说服他们不要活活烧死你

更多的印度人到了他们的小屋在 100

米外的森林边缘附近有

一个小男孩在学习纳特

他非常轻声说

你好，

纳特知道他们来对了地方

没有人听到那个男孩

纳特·李 印度人停下了，但雷切尔

继续走

她摘下帽子

她的头发是棕色和半灰色的

，很短

她 42 岁，但她看起来

年轻时

她没有握手，

也没有告诉他们她的名字

我的名字是 nate o’reilly

我是华盛顿的一名律师，

而你她对 jv 说

我是 columba 的 jv cardozo

我是他的向导

她查了他们 然后

微微一笑，

这一刻对她来说一点也不令人不快是

什么让你来到这里她问

我正在寻找雷切尔莱恩

我的公司

与

她有重要的法律业务

我只能告诉她

我不是 瑞秋·莱恩 对不起

jv si ghed 和 nate 的肩膀垂下

她看到每一个

动作 你饿不饿 她问他们

他们都点点头

她打电话给印第安人

jv 她

说和这些人一起到村子里他们

会喂你并给你足够的食物

给与

nate 坐在一起的奥莱利先生 坐在长凳上，

静静地看着印第安人把

杰维带到村子里，

他转身只是为了确保纳特

没事

雷切尔莱恩多年前消失了

那个女人说，看着远处的村庄，

我把雷切尔的名字封了，但放弃了

车道

一定很严重，否则你就不会在

这里

她轻声细语

特洛伊死了

他在三周前自杀了

她低下头 微微

闭上眼睛祈祷

这是一个简短的祈祷 然后是长时间的

停顿

沉默没有打扰她

你认识他吗

她终于问

我几年前见过他一次

不我不认识他

我也不是

他是我的父亲但他总是一个

陌生人

你是怎么找到我

特洛伊在他死前试图找到你的 d

但他难道不

知道你是世界部落的传教士

，而且你在世界的这个地方，

找到你成了我的工作

他有很多钱

，这就是为什么我在这里

我们需要谈谈

商业特洛伊 在他的遗嘱里给我留下了一些东西

你可以说

我不想谈生意

我想聊天

一个小时前

我和一个病人在一起 第二天早上男孩们来告诉第九章

死亡

ayesh 走在

她面前 母亲感到蛇

在她赤脚下移动时，

它撞到了她的脚踝下方，她

尖叫

着，当她父亲走到她身边时，

她震惊了，她的右脚变大了

一倍

一个 15 岁的男孩 部落中跑得最快的

人是 被派去接瑞秋

，在

他们的潘塔纳尔河地区有四条毒蛇

，瑞秋通常有治疗它们咬伤的药物，

但

在

她上次去科伦巴阿耶莎的旅行中，她一直找不到这种蛇的药物，而且她

很小，而且 瘦

，她可能会死

瑞秋一边祈祷一边跑在男孩们身后，

一群印第安人带着 nate 和

jv 到村子里，村长

想见他们，

他的妻子正在准备早餐，

而他们正在吃 javi，

酋长说

了几句 jv 后才把他们翻译

成 英语

nate ate

听着

，看着村里的 rachel，

她不在那里 村长解释说

她在隔壁村

照顾一个被蛇咬过的孩子

他不确定她什么时候回来

他希望我们去 今晚住在

村里 jv 说

nate 希望他带了卫星

电话

josh 一定很担心他们已经

快一周没说话了

valdir 律师接到了斯塔福德先生的提早电话

我没有收到 nate o’reilly 的消息

斯塔福德说

这几天我们这里有很多暴风雨

你没有听到你

儿子的消息不他们在一起导游很好船很好我相信他们很好他们同意瓦尔代尔

听到什么时候会打电话来 g 从船上

valdere 走到窗前，

看着 korumba 繁忙的街道，

有很多关于人们

进入潘塔纳尔河后再也没有回来的故事

jv 的父亲在这条河上航行了 30

年

，他的尸体一直没有找到，

他找到了 一个小时

后，律师事务所 valdir 出来见他

你是谁 他要求我叫

Welly jv 雇我在圣卢拉工作

jv 在哪里他还在

panthenal 船沉了

jv 奥赖利先生留在了小

乘船去寻找印第安人

几天前，当太阳落山时，我发现了 nate 和 javy

她和主在一起

她坐在门外 男孩站在

几乎被黑暗遮住的树下

我不能邀请你到我家

只有已婚的人才能在一天中的这个时候在室内

你花了多长时间才习惯了

生活 H 内特

问我几年了，

我想家三年了

，现在有时候我

想开车

吃披萨，看一部好电影

巴特，你只是

我在 14 岁时成为基督徒

，我 知道上帝希望我成为

一名传教士

我相信他 我

可以谈谈

特洛伊 阴影正在快速下降

他们相距三米，仍然可以

看到彼此

但如果你必须，黑暗很快就会将他们分开

她说

她的声音 疲惫的

特洛伊有三个妻子和六个孩子

，我们知道

你当然是一个惊喜

他不喜欢其他六个

他几乎没有给他们留下任何东西，只是

足以偿还他们的债务

他把其他一切都给了你

我没见过特洛伊 20 年

这并不重要，

他把财产留给

了你 我的方式

什么样的文件

法律的东西

都 为了你的利益

你不关心我的利益

她的话更尖锐

你不知道我想要或需要什么你

不了解我所以你怎么知道

什么对我有好处

好吧你是对的

但它是 看到这些文件并签署对你来说非常重要

所有继承人必须

亲自或书面告诉法庭他们

理解法律要求的遗嘱

如果我

诚实地拒绝

我没想到这是

每个人的例行公事总是 合作

瑞秋沉默了片刻，

然后她改变了话题

你有家人吗

她问

我有过一对

两次婚姻 两次离婚 四个孩子

我现在一个人住

离婚很容易 不是

我们结婚然后离婚

发现

乔希遇到了法官 wycliffe 并向他展示

了 troy phelan 签署遗嘱的视频，

他们观看了视频的第一部分，

没有发表任何评论

说明 phelan 先生确切地知道他在

做什么

威克里夫对自己笑了笑

房间清理了 troy 对面的摄像头

一直在

troy 拿出第二份遗嘱并

在精神检查结束后四分钟签了字

他们将如何解决这个问题

威克利夫问

这是一个没有答案的问题

雷克斯和利比盖尔已经开始

质疑其他继承人会

很快做

同样的遗嘱他第一次签署的

遗嘱威克利夫说

他没有签署

但我看到他在视频上

不，他

从 1982 年到 1996 年签署了米老鼠的名字 我准备了 11

份费林先生

的遗嘱，法律规定，每签一份新遗嘱，

旧遗嘱必须

在他签署新遗嘱时销毁，我们

费兰先生和我烧毁了他喜欢的旧遗嘱

如果

他能开心几个月，

然后他的一个孩子会让他发疯，他会

开始谈论改变他的遗嘱，

如果继承人能证明他

在签署那份手写遗嘱时他的神智不健全，

那么就没有其他的了

他们会全部毁掉

吗 他的财产会分给他所有的孩子 他为什么要把 110 亿给一个传教的私生女 听起来有点疯狂 不是你认为这种感觉很疯狂

威克利夫问乔希 一点

也不

奇怪

而且很卑鄙

他知道他在做什么

找到那个女孩 乔希

第二天早上我们正在尝试 雷切尔与酋长交谈

他认为会有一场风暴 她说

会议结束后内特

他说你可以去

但他不会发送 导游 太

危险

了 没有导游我们能不能回去

河流汇合很不明智 很容易

迷路 即使史诗在雨季失去了人

我需要回去 内特说

这次旅行已经花费了太长时间

我们必须谈谈

我必须去下一个村子参加

小女孩的葬礼

你为什么不和我一起去

我们会有足够的时间谈

采取

钱

如果你有很多钱 你可以买

很多药 你可以

把你需要的所有药物装满你的书架

你可以买一艘漂亮的小船

带你去库鲁巴

你可以在一所学校里建一所医院

把基督教传遍

潘塔纳尔

她停下来转身

我没有做任何事情来赚钱

而且我不认识制造它的人

请

不要再提及它

把它全部捐给慈善机构

这不是我的给予

它会被浪费 数百万将交给

律师，剩下的将交给你的

兄弟姐妹，相信我，你

不希望

那些人拿到钱后会引起很多

不快

她很慢地握住他的手

她说

我不 关心

我会为他们祈祷

他们在小溪边停下来休息片刻

你昨晚说你很虚弱

瑞秋说那是什么意思

我是个酒鬼 回答说

我已经跌到谷底四次了 我没有

钱

我因不缴税而陷入困境

可能会进监狱 失去我的执照并且

不能执业

你知道关于那两次离婚

两个女人都不喜欢我 他们

毒害了我的孩子

我毁了我的生活

其他任何事情

雷切尔问

哦是的

我试图自杀 至少

两次 去年八月一次 然后几天前

在库鲁巴 我差点把自己喝死

你除非你要求

你必须去他那里祈祷，

他可以原谅你所有的罪第10章。

发烧，雷切尔下午中午回来时，风暴从来没有来过

，

她和拉科直接

去找村长，报告

了另一个村庄的事件

她和 nate 和 jv 说话

她累了，想在

他们讨论事情

之前睡一觉 她和 nate 向河边走去，

走到树下的窄长凳上，

他们紧紧地坐着，膝盖再次接触

每个村庄都有当地医生 雷切尔

说

他做饭 请 蚂蚁和树根来做他的

药

他召唤灵魂来帮助解决

各种问题

这些医生是我的敌人

我对他们的宗教构成威胁他们

在河下游的一个村庄袭击基督徒我有一

所小学校在那里我教阅读和

写它是为基督徒写的，但

它也对任何人开放

一年前我们患有疟疾，三人

死亡 当地医生告诉村长

，人们

因为我的学校而生病，

他们受到

惩罚 学校现在关闭

了 父母 死去的女孩中有

基督徒 当地医生说他本可以

救这个女孩，但父母没有

打电话给他

他责备我的死

，他

在今天的葬礼上责备上帝 他开始

跳舞和唱歌 我无法

完成 服务员的

声音微微沙哑，她咬着

嘴唇，

她不能在印第安人面前哭泣，

她必须一直坚强，

但她可以和 nate 一起哭

，他会

理解的，我认为你现在应该走了，她

说 突然间，

我想我今天在另一个村庄看到了一例疟疾病例，

蚊子携带它

并迅速传播，

相信我，我得过两次疟疾，

你不希望它第二次差点

杀死我

，没想到纳特她

如果她死了可能会死 国家的感觉需要好几年才能

安定

下来 他非常钦佩她 她是

一切 他并不坚强 勇敢

过着简单的生活

不要死 瑞秋 他说

你是个好人

你有 一颗善良的心

和一颗善良的心，

你只

需要一些

帮助 走开 他

在河的第一个转弯处向雷切尔和印第安人挥手 他

瞥了一眼他的肩膀

雷切尔和印第安人没有动

即使天气很凉他也在出汗

他的胳膊和腿都湿了 我病了 他

以为他注意到了 他和几分钟后

说

nate 你是吗 凯

他摇头不，疼痛从

他的眼睛射到他的脊椎

jv

我想我得了疟疾

你怎么知道

瑞秋警告我

她昨天在另一个村庄看到了

这就是我们今天离开的原因

我发烧了

，我不能 看到

jv 停下船，对印第安人大喊

他迅速展开帐篷，

你会感到寒冷和颤抖他说

他工作时

有没有疟疾，

但我的大多数朋友都死于

它，这

是多么

糟糕的笑话，

它不会杀死很多人，但 你会

很不舒服

轻轻移动 尽量让他的头保持不动

内特躺在船的中央

jv 把帐篷盖在他身上

并用两个空的

油箱固定住 印第安人在他们旁边

拉科问贾维发生了什么事

内特听到了 疟疾这个词，

然后他们离开了

两次，独木舟放慢了速度，因为 ipekas

讨论了哪个岔路口要

搭

jv 让他们的船在 100 米后面

他看不到帐篷下的 nate，但

他知道他的朋友正在受苦

locko 很担心 这个美国人

我应该告诉传教士关于

他的什么他问jv告诉她他得了疟疾

听到他们的

声音发烧从头到脚烧伤

他的皮肤和衣服都湿

了他的嘴很干以至于张开嘴很痛

风暴随之而来 他们，但没有抓住

他们

jv 以为他们会在

黎明前

在圣罗拉找到威利 印第安人累了，准备停下来

最后他们找到了一个地方并登陆了

locko 解释说他多年来一直是

传教士的助手，

他会 看过很多疟疾病例

他看着 nate 发高烧 他

告诉

jv 发烧会消失

但 48 小时内还会有另一次发作

最年长的向导开始与 laco 交谈

他为 jv 翻译告诉他要留

在中心

两小时后的河流 他们会

在 korumba valdir 找到巴拉圭 打电话给一位医生朋友

并说服他在

医院与

他们会面 他们驾驶 valder 的车穿过城镇

无视灯光和

标志 你找到那个女人 valdei ra 问 jv

她说了什么

我不知道

我并没有真正和她说话 我认为她

喜欢我们后面的朋友

nate 紧紧地蜷缩在后座上

什么也没听 医生研究了从

nate 下巴开始的皮疹然后停止了

腰部被蚊虫叮咬

看起来像登革热 他说 10

分钟后

因为他是美国富豪

在医院得到了最好的药物

发烧稍微退了

一点 出汗停止

了 他的体温应该很快就会降下来

医生告诉护士

一大早我会再见到他

护士

把他带进一个房间和另外五个病人的房间里时，护士把他带到了一个房间里，

他没有看到开放性的疮

，他旁边的老人不受控制地颤抖着，

他闻不到气味

像他父亲一样的废物 rex felin 擅长

数字

他意识到六家律师事务所在

做同样的工作

六家公司在打同样的仗 每个

都想分一杯羹 现在是

全家团聚的时候

了 cid 从他的兄弟 tj 开始，

两兄弟秘密相遇

rex 以一个讽刺故事开始，这是一个

巨大的故事，他说

这可能会成败我们的诉讼

，当他写下他想要 500 万的遗嘱时，他会说他是唯一和爸爸在一起的人

但他只想要

半百万现在

我们会想办法不付给他

剩下的

我们有六家律师事务所都在攻击

同样的意志他们都希望

在我们解决后

发财 getties 得到 troy

要求 25

我想要 30. 我们同意 20.

troy jr 很自豪他做了

比 rex 更好的交易让我们玩

数字 rex 继续

想象我们雇用 sneed 并且他说

了庄园想要解决的所有正确的事情

我们每个

人可能会得到 2000 万美元 5 分

给你的孩子 4 分给你的孩子 那是

9 分

所以我们得到

31 我们解雇

他并坚持我的第 1 章 1

一个新的

开始 半夜 nate

终于醒了

他抢了他酸痛的眼睛

他的额头很烫

他口渴了，不记得他

在黑暗的房间里吃的最后一餐 终于有人

从一个床移到另一个床

停在奈特身边

她轻轻抚摸他的手臂

奈特

她低声

说是

瑞秋 雷切尔

他低声说

我在这里 奈特

上帝派我来保护你

他伸手去抱

她 她握住他的手

你不会死 奈特 她说

上帝有计划 因为你

他什么也说不出来

他慢慢地调整了他的眼睛他能

看到她

他说的是你还是另一个梦

他把头靠在枕头上

他的肌肉放松了他的关节

变得松

了他的额头和脸的热度

他陷入了 睡得很沉

他梦见穿着白色连衣裙的女孩

漂浮在他头顶的云层中

他们唱着他以前从未听过的歌曲

但他们似乎很熟悉

第二天

中午他不顾医生的建议离开了医院

没有人在医院见过瑞秋 纳特

向 jv 耳语了他的秘密，jv 午饭后

会问护士

javi 开始步行穿过

镇子寻找她

似乎没有人知道关于

从 valder 办公室的 pantanal 来的白人妇女

nate 打电话给乔什斯塔福德

人情不见了 他说

我几天后回家

好吧

告诉我关于那个女人

她对钱不感兴趣

你不能说服这个女人

我尝试过的任何事情都没有成功

所以我停止了

没有人走开 从这种

钱奈特

你就不能对她说点道理吗

不，乔希，

她是我见过的最幸福的人，

完全满足于

在她的人民中度过余生，

这是上帝希望她成为的人

她签署了 文件

没有对不起老板 我试图让她

签名 她永远不会签名

杰米没有发现瑞秋的踪迹

他开始怀疑他朋友的故事

登革热让你看到东西让你

听到声音让你相信鬼魂

nate 一直寻找到周末

他走在街上

看着人群

检查旅馆和路边咖啡馆

没有看到最后一天看起来像 rachel 的人

他在 valdir 的办公室停下来领取

他的护照

他们像老朋友一样分手

并承诺 很快就会见面

他们都知道这永远不会发生

jv开车送他去机场

他想在美国度过一段时间

并请求 nate 的帮助

我需要一份工作 他说

nate 同情地听着

不确定他自己是否还在

有工作的

我看看我能做些什么 他说

飞机上坐在他旁边座位上的女士点了一杯啤酒 纳特研究

了罐头 他告诉自己

他闭上了眼睛并祈求上帝给

他力量

他

几个小时后点了咖啡 飞机从

华盛顿的云层中坠落 大地被大雪覆盖

乔希在等他

我想你可以在我们

这里住几天 他说谢谢

你觉得

我很好

有点虚弱，这就是

他们在沉默中骑了一段时间

交通缓慢

然后内特宣布

我不会回到办公室乔希

那些日子已经结束了

为什么

让我们说我很累

回到他告诉乔希他的冒险经历的房子里

在潘塔纳尔，

他谈到了瑞秋并详细描述了

她，

当他

谈到报纸上的钱时，

如果她不接受特洛伊遗嘱的礼物，

钱仍然留在他的遗产中，

乔希说

如果继承人的话 可以证明特洛伊

疯了，那么

他的七个孩子都不会

平分他的财产

如果

瑞秋说她不想要钱，那就为遗嘱而战

，最重要的是，我的客户

按照他的意愿放弃了他的财产，

我想保护他的遗嘱，

其次我知道费林先生对

他的孩子的感受，

他真的没有 希望他们

拿到他的钱

我和他一样的感受 我不想去想

如果他们每三分之一得到 10 亿他们会怎么做

主街两旁的商铺 旧楼

并排 房子在绿街上 可以

看到

海港 前院很小，下

近一米的积雪

纳特停好车，一路

奔向里面的门廊

房子整洁有序

乔希说，每个星期三都有一个女人

来打扫

卫生，但没有咖啡，这是当天的第一个紧急情况，

纳特锁上门进城，

那是星期天，所有的商店都关门

了 他

走在

前面 教堂的钟声响起

奈特走进教堂

那是一座漂亮的建筑，

但里面人很少

头发立在最前面

他们在歌曲和

祈祷中

挣扎

上帝将他拉向某个方向

他不知道在哪里

但

他离开教堂时不再害怕 菲尔神父

拉着纳特的手 欢迎 他说

欢迎来到三一教堂

我是华盛顿的纳特·奥莱利

我是 在斯塔福德的房子住几天

很高兴有你今天早上什么时候

到达

你一个人

是的

那么你必须和我们一起吃午饭

我的妻子每次下雪都会做汤

它现在在炉子上

请我们的房子只是 在教堂后面

菲尔已经拉着纳特的胳膊

是什么把你带到这里 他问

这是一个很长的故事 哦，

美妙的

劳拉，我喜欢故事 让我们吃个

长午餐，讲故事

为什么不认为纳特

没有食物

教堂后面的房子 劳拉正在

关灯 菲尔把

她介绍给纳特 她有一头灰白的短发，

看上去比

她的丈夫年长 吃午饭时有客人来吃并不奇怪

纳特告诉他们他的旅行 到巴西

在他的故事中 暴风雨变得更猛

船更小 印第安人变得不那么友好

当他完成问题时

菲尔想了解传教士

她的第 12 章

给瑞秋的一封信

玛丽·罗斯 星期一早上开火

了 她的盖蒂斯现在有三个

来自第一家庭的四个继承人

他的百分比已经下降到十七

五，但他能赚到的钱是

巨大的

他召集了一个会议告诉其他

律师

沃利·布莱特的后颈变红了，如果他试图偷窃他会杀死盖蒂的消息

libigale

远离我的客户 他大声说

我们知道你在玩的游戏我们

不傻

我

先问你很多问题，

所以在接下来的一个小时左右假设

我们是敌人

听开始问问题，斯内德

处理得很好，放松了，

然后兰霍恩女士问斯内德关于重

罪犯家庭的

事情你知道雷切尔莱恩吗她问

我没有 没想到那个嗤之以鼻的人说

你觉得他问了什么？

多年来，

但她与他无关，

所以如果他离开她一切，这

表明他很

疯狂，

当他完成时，他重复并扩大了故事，律师们

很高兴，

他们都开始帮助斯内德

为三个难题寻找答案

几个小时他们建立了他的故事

然后两个小时他们试图把它拆掉

有一次

当他筋疲力尽时他几乎要流泪他们把他送回家

并告诉他练习他的答案

可怜的sneed drive h 我在他的新车里

他决心给他们他们

想要的东西

纳特计划在早上阅读和写作

他的计划被一个电话改变了

你忙吗 菲尔父亲问我

在教堂的地下室工作 我

需要一些 帮助

nate 想一想汤

还有很多

我会在 10 分钟内到 他说

phil 在地下室测量木材

我正在建造六间教室用于圣经

学习 他说

这是一项艰巨的工作而 phil 工作得很

慢 在他们工作的时候喝了很多咖啡休息时间

他们聊了

纳特谈到了他的一些麻烦，

包括与政府的问题

你会怎么做菲尔问

我不知道

你是否相信上帝

是的，我想威克里夫法官

在 12 点进入他的办公室 30.

乔希告诉我你找到了世界上最富有的

女人 他说

是的

乔希解释说她

对 phelan 先生的精神状态一无所知，

所以她不能成为证人，

我们可以在没有她的情况下进行诉讼

问

关于瑞秋的

问题很危险

威克利夫一定不知道瑞秋

不想要钱

乔希打断你知道法官这

不是一个复杂的案子 每个人都很

着急

为什么我们不能尽快开始诉讼

得到所有 律师现在在一个

房间里，让他们出示一份

证人和文件清单，

然后设定一个 90 天的审判日期，

你呢，奥莱利先生，你的

委托人

急于拿到钱吗？

那天晚上所有人都笑了 纳特开始给雷切尔写信

他有休斯顿世界部落的

地址 他会将这封信标记为私人

并寄给雷切尔·莱恩

世界部落的人知道

她在哪里和在

哪里 想办法联系她

他写下日期 然后

亲爱的瑞秋

一个小时过去了 他试着想一些

听起来很聪明的词

最后他开始写

下雪

她从小就怀念它

吗 外面的地面有半米

他在窗外

告诉她他正在担任她的

律师，并解释了

他告诉她关于菲尔神父和

教堂以及地下室的遗嘱发生了什么

他正在研究圣经并享受

它

当他写完信时正在为她祈祷 是三

页长

奈特读了两遍

，以为

如果她收到了，她会喜欢的 他知道她会

一遍又一遍地读

奈特想再次见到她

这个故事周五早上出现在报纸上，

上面说瑞秋·莱恩是

通过她的律师 nate o’reilly 先生

与反对她父亲遗嘱的人作战

呃，成为她的

律师 重罪犯的律师们对这个消息感到惊讶

棕色信封被送到了南美使团

的neva collier 组织者的办公桌 它是写给南美的雷切尔·莱恩

传教士的 个人

里面是一封可能涉及的人的信

还有一个更小的信封，

从来没有大声读过

随附的信是给

你在巴西的一位传教士 rachel Lane 的信

请寄给她 我大约两周前遇到了 rachel

我在潘塔纳尔发现了她

我来访的目的是一个法律

问题

她 做得很好，

我向瑞秋保证，我不会告诉

任何人她在哪里，

她不想再被

任何法律事务打扰，我同意了

她的要求，

她需要钱买一条新船和

药品，

我很乐意将支票寄给你

我想再次写信给瑞秋 请

让我知道你给她寄了这

封信 谢谢

nate

o’reilly 每年 3 月 1 日和 8 月 1 日两次联系到瑞秋并不容易

ibes 将包裹寄到科伦巴的

邮局，

其中包括医疗用品、

基督教文学和

她需要

的任何其他物品，如果瑞秋没有收到包裹，邮局会保留这些包裹 30

天，

这些包裹会被

送回休斯顿，

这从未发生过，

每个八月，瑞秋都去科伦巴 并

在 3 月致电世界部落办公室 包裹被

乘船送上河，然后留在

zekko 河河口附近的一个农场

locko

在 11 年里收集它们 rachel 从未收到过

私人信件

neva 复制了 nate 的电话号码和

地址

然后把信藏在抽屉里，她

会在一个月内把它和三月的常用用品一起寄出去

当电话响起时，

女声说

nate o’reilly，她

正在床上，我是 nate o’reilly，

晚上好，我叫 neva collier

我收到了你的信，我会把

瑞秋的信寄给她，

谢谢，我想再给她写信，

你最近有没有收到她的

来信，两周前没有瑞秋来

科伦巴 他知道这件事是因为她

来了医院 她和他谈过

抚摸他

然后消失了

但她没有打电话给世界部落办公室

多么奇怪

你为什么找到她的涅瓦矿工问

你看过你看懂的报纸

她父亲做

了什么 必须有人解释

发生的事情 必须是律师

你提到第 13 章

诉讼 诉讼的

第一阶段于

2 月 17 日星期一开始

所有想要与 troy

phelan 的遗嘱抗争的人都必须宣布他们的

利益

nate 可以询问他们

是否可以接受证人

纳特不想在一个

满是律师的房间里待上两周

当他遇到感觉继承人时他的态度发生了变化

第一个证人是小特洛伊·费兰先生

纳特介绍了

自己 你现在在

任何药物或酒精的影响他开始愉快地

我不是小特洛伊愤怒地说

哪一个是你的律师纳特问

对面的人群挥手

心脏

盖蒂律师很生气

nate 不知道哪些律师

代表每个客户 这表明

他不尊重他们

你有多少个妻子

你有多少个初级枪击

让我向你解释一下

phelan nate 先生说

我会说得很慢

所以 仔细听

我是律师

你是证人

我问

你给出的答案

现在让我们再试一次 你有多少个妻子

一个小时后他们完成了他的

婚姻 他的孩子 他的离婚

小辈满头大汗 想知道

什么时候

结束 用一个问题引出

另一个问题 没有细节太小，他

无法

调查 下午更难

nate 问

troy jr 21 岁生日收到的 500 万美元

怎么给你的钱 nate

问它是存入账户的 在

银行

你是如何通过写支票从账户中取钱的，

他写了很多支票，小

特洛伊在收到钱后再也没有回到大学，

他只是参加了

奈特透露 小特洛伊九年没

工作他打高尔夫球和

足球买了汽车在巴哈马呆了一年

过着豪华的生活直到

他的钱用完

然后他爬回他父亲那里

找一份

内特谈到的工作 小特洛伊在

他父亲去世后做了什么

你赊账买了两辆昂贵的保时捷

两个月后你没有付一

毛钱

你欠家具的钱

美国运通要超过一万五千

美元 银行因为你欠他们而把你告上法庭

钱是

对的 证人点头

利比盖尔星期五早上来了，纳特

问她的 500 万，在

压力下，她讲述了好药

和坏男人的故事，

她现在和一个前骑自行车的人和前瘾君子住在一起，名叫斯皮克，

如果你 得到了你父亲六分之一的

财产 纳特要求

买很多东西 她说

但这次我会很聪明

一个更好的房子

她花钱的时候眼睛都在跳

玛丽·罗斯 费林·杰克曼

按照早期的问题透露，

她拿了 500 万，在意大利生活

了三年

，28 岁她嫁给了医生，生了两个

女孩

，不清楚是怎么回事

剩下的大部分钱

他们过得很好但

负债累累 午饭后闲聊

了几个问题 很

明显他和他看起来一样愚蠢

他说他很少去上学 一个

人住在地下室喜欢玩

吉他，并计划很快成为摇滚明星

他不玩任何运动 从来没有见过

教堂的内部

尽可能少地和他的母亲说话，

在他

醒着不弹音乐的时候看 mtv

吉娜是本周的最后一个见证人

在她父亲去世四天后，她

和她的丈夫签订了一份价值

380 万美元的房子的合同，

你打算如何支付家里的费用？纳特

问答案很明显，但她不能

承认

我们有钱她说

让我们 谈你的钱 他笑着说

你30岁

九年前你收到了500万

还剩多少

她纠结了很久

才承认

她的银行里只有20万

帐户

她的丈夫科迪在糟糕的商业交易中投资了数百万美元

当内特那天晚上离开这座城市时他

想到了继承人的感觉

他为他们的成长方式感到难过

但他知道这笔钱在他们手中

会造成痛苦和不

快乐 当他到达圣迈克尔教堂时已经很晚了

，当他经过教堂时，他

想停下来，跪下

祈求上帝原谅他为弱者犯下的罪过，

第二天奈特和菲尔坐在

斯塔福德房子的前台阶上

他正在计划一次旅行，他悄悄地说

我需要看我的孩子们，

我必须在星期二早上 8 点 30

分去法庭。

他的故事

josh 认识 sneed 多年， phelan 先生

经常说要摆脱

他 他被

付钱让他出现在

他已经收到的 50 万美元

和另外 450 万美元的承诺上

斯尼德认为问题是

你得到了多少报酬，而不是

他心里

发狂的样子让奥莱利先生似乎什么都知道

了那种感觉，律师们缩在

座位

上，你得到多少报酬，

纳特又问了

50 万美元，斯尼德

承认

你有没有收到这笔钱

snaid 不知道是说谎还是说

真话 所以他说

是的

50 万 现在 多少 后来 nate

问

着急出演 撒谎的 snead 什么都没回答

谁付给你这笔钱

亿万富翁的律师

你去找他们还是他们找你

他不

知道你为 phelan 先生工作了

30 年

，你对他了如指掌，

是的

，你没有告诉任何人他

疯

了 你一百万

美元，对，

斯奈德

在他生命的最后 14 年里想不出一个快速的答复，

费兰先生在其中一个中写了 11 份遗嘱

他给你留下了一百万

美元，你当时有没有告诉任何人

他疯

了？ 我要告诉

nate 的工作

在下午晚些时候继续问他他突然问

你拿了 50 万

的时候你

和律师签了合同吗？

h 当然不是 他说

没有人相信他

尼科莱特 秘书持续了八

分钟

她只有 23 岁，

除了漂亮的胸膛外，几乎没有其他资格 漂亮的第 14 章

周末的定居点 奈特离开了

这座城市，

他在九天的生活中筋疲力尽

质疑这种感觉和继承人 他感到

羞耻 他同情这种感觉 孩子

们感到难过 两天后，一个悲伤的小

男人只想活下去

西奥最后一次见到他们时，奈特喝醉了

，在前院和他的前妻打架，

而孩子们看着

西奥用铲子威胁他，

奈特后来在麦当劳停车场的车里醒来，

喝了六杯空啤酒 他在他旁边座位上的罐头

他在到达他们家前四个小时给克里斯蒂打了电话

克里斯蒂是我，他说

我在俄勒冈州 我想看看孩子们

也许今晚

明天 很好，我想我们可以解决

一些问题，但是孩子们很忙，

你知道学校舞蹈课足球

他们怎么样

他们做得很好我们爱俄勒冈

他们同意第二天晚上吃晚饭，

这给了她足够的时间来准备

孩子们

Theo 决定加班到很晚

nate 亲吻了 angela austin 刚刚握手

christy 在她的卧室里待了一个

小时，而他们的父亲又认识了他的

孩子们

晚餐持续了一个

小时 7 点钟 nate 说他必须去

我明天有一场足球赛 爸爸奥斯汀

说，纳特的心脏几乎停止了

他不记得上一次他

被称为

爸爸是在学校安吉拉说你能

来

纳特不知道该说什么

克里斯蒂解决了这个问题

我会在那里我们可以 谈话 她

说我当然会来 他

说孩子们在

赶走的时候吻了他 奈特怀疑克里斯蒂

想连续两天见他

检查他的眼睛 她知道标志

奈特在塞勒姆呆了三天

他看着他儿子玩 足球，

充满自豪

他被邀请回去吃晚饭，但

只有在西奥加入时才同意来

他在学校与安吉拉和她的朋友共进午餐

他带着破碎的心离开塞勒姆

一个男人怎么会失去他几乎记得的如此美好的

家庭

孩子们更小的时候

没有学校戏剧圣诞节早上去商场旅行

现在他们快长大了

，另一个男人正在抚养他们

丹尼尔他的大孩子

在大学附近的一家酒吧遇到了纳特

他正在和一个女孩等着

他们都在抽烟和 在

他们面前放着瓶子

这是工作人员 丹尼尔说她是模特

奈特注意到斯蒂芬的第一件事

是她厚厚的嘴唇上涂着灰色的口红

她当然瘦到可以当

模特

奈特立刻不喜欢她 你想要

啤酒 丹尼尔问

不只是水 奈特说

丹尼尔对服务员大喊大叫

奈特问

我辍学了 打架时的言语

奈特怀疑他的儿子没有钱

，他想惩罚他的父亲，

因为他没有支持

他很害怕，尽管奈特很

虚弱，可能会再次开始

滑倒，斯蒂芬会控制住他的愤怒和

他的

语言 第二个原因是

尽可能缩短会议时间

你为什么辍学 纳特

问这很无聊

他没钱了 斯蒂芬说乐于助人

纳特想拿出他的支票簿

并解决孩子们的问题，这是

他一直在做的事情

但是现在丹尼尔已经 23 岁了

，是时候让他自己下水或游泳

了。

这对你有好处，纳特说

工作一段时间，这会让你

在四杯酒后欣赏学校，斯蒂芬喝醉了，

丹尼尔和纳特无话可说

他在圣迈克尔写下了他的电话号码

并把它给了丹尼尔

这是接下来

几个月

我会去的地方如果你需要我请打电话给我

看你丹尼尔说

两天后保重他在匹兹堡

第三次 最后的会议 和他的

孩子一起，

这并没有发生，

他和凯特琳谈了两次，

细节很清楚，她说她会

在 7 点 30 分在他酒店的餐厅与他见面共进晚餐，

她在 8 点 30 分给他打电话，并说一位

朋友 出事了

她在医院

nate 建议他们第二天吃午饭

凯特琳说她不能她的

朋友有头部受伤 她打算和她

待在一起直到她稳定

她看不到 nate 她不能

离开医院，

她是不是非常讨厌他，

在一个他不认识的城市里，一个孤独的旅馆房间里，

他

很容易同情自己，

他抓起电话忙起来，他

打电话给菲尔，检查圣迈克尔医院的事情，

他 打电话给塞尔吉奥，

他感到惊讶地控制住

了他的酒店房间 瑞秋·莱恩

打算用这笔钱做什么 一位

律师问

我不确定

乔希说，好像他和瑞秋

每天都在讨论这个问题，

她可能会保留一点并给予

在我看来，大部分都捐给了慈善机构

这就是特洛伊想要的，

他知道如果你的客户

拿到钱，把钱留给瑞秋，它不会持续 90 天

他知道这笔钱会

转嫁给有需要的人，

我们可以向最高法院提起诉讼

兰霍恩说她是否意识到

这可能需要几年时间

她确实 乔希说

这就是为什么她想讨论

和解的可能性

我们从哪里开始问沃利·布莱特

很长一段时间 他们谈到了数字

然后乔希说

nato riley 已经联系了他的客户 她

将为六个继承人中的每一个提供 1000

万

美元 律师们快速计算

有 3 个客户

17.5% 给了他

525 万美元的费用

沃利·布莱特会从他与 libigale 的合同中收取 500 万美元，

斯派克其他律师会收取 200

万美元

5000

万其他人也摇了摇头，

试图表现出对乔希的提议感到厌恶，

他们谈论了一段时间的数字，

然后乔希说

瑞秋莱恩是 不是一个贪婪的女人，

我认为她可能会以每个继承人 2000 万的价格和解

仅哈克的律师费翻了一番超过 1000 万

可怜的沃利 1000 万现在突然

感到恶心并要求离开会议

电话响时，内特正在帮助菲尔父亲 天哪

，再好不过了，我停

在 2000 万，他们想要

50。50 纳特难以置信地说

是的，但他们已经

花了钱，我敢打赌，他们中的两个现在在

梅赛德斯车库，

我们应该在星期三完成交易

我等不及奈特说

该喝咖啡休息时间了，

我们星期三见法官奈特告诉

菲尔

然后我要回潘塔纳尔

告诉瑞秋发生了什么

事你兴奋

吗我不知道

我想见她但我 “我不确定她

想见我，她很高兴，她

不想要这个世界的任何部分，

那为什么要这样做，

因为如果她再次拒绝这笔钱

，另一方会得到一切，

但你已经说过瑞秋

不会 拿走她不会改变的钱

她的想法菲尔说不，

所以这次旅行恐怕是在浪费

时间，

但在第 15 章

，星期五下午回到潘塔纳尔，菲尔在九个小时内开车把内特开

到巴尔的摩华盛顿机场，

他将在库鲁巴，

他和乔希 为瑞秋写了一份信托文件

，

她收到的钱将存放

在一个名为瑞秋信托

的信托中

触摸

钱只需要快速签名，如果她不同意签名，

感觉和庄园就会被关闭

，

然后她必须写一封信说

她不想要钱，

她可以拒绝礼物，但她有

告诉

法庭，法律将把钱交给

重罪

儿童，当他到达时她会如何反应，

他希望她看到他会很高兴，

但他不确定

他是否记得她在他离开时向他的船挥手。

立场 ng 在她的人民中挥手

告别，永远告别

她不想被世界上的事情打扰

valdere 租了一架直升飞机，

将他带到潘塔纳尔的贸易站，

他的老朋友 jv 和 welly

正在等待他 地面

时间很宝贵

nate 害怕暴风雨 黑暗 洪水和

蚊子 他想尽快行动

nate 和 jv 迅速爬上

船出发

jv 认为他们需要三个

小时才能到达印第安人定居点

两边的树木 河水

变得越来越厚

，纳特开始认出这片

土地

最后他们走下船，

瑞秋挥手告别

了一个年轻的印第安人跑向他们，他告诉

他留在河边，直到有

进一步的命令，

当他们等待时，他似乎很害怕 javy 谈到 他

努力寻找瑞秋和科伦巴

我告诉你他说

我听过河上的人

但那位女士没有来

她不在医院你是

梦 我的朋友

nate 不想争辩

他不确定自己

一只蚊子在 nate 的手上盘旋 他

想压死它 但他却在

等待他的超级驱虫剂会起作用

他的耳朵 脖子和脸上都沾满了

油 蚊子突然俯冲 朝着

他的手背然后停下来，

它拉开并消失

了第二次登革热攻击可能会

杀死他，当

酋长回来时，他没有抓住任何机会

，他独自一人，

他们跟着他走了50米，

然后在另一个小屋后面移动

trail

nate 可以看到村子周围的区域

它是空的

没有一个 ipica 走动

没有孩子在玩耍 没有女人在

做饭和打扫

没有声音 唯一的动静是

他们的火产生的烟雾

然后他看到窗户上的面孔

他们被监视

着，酋长让他们远离炎热

，好像他们携带疾病一样，

他转向另一条小径，

穿过树林，过了一会儿，

当他们来到 最后，

他们在雷切尔的小屋

附近 没有她

的踪迹 酋长带领他们经过前门

，来到

浓密树荫下的一侧

他们看到了坟墓

与之相配的白色十字架是用木头做的

他们很小而且卡在 进入

两个坟墓尽头的新鲜泥土

酋长开始

说话 女人在左边

lakko 在右边

jb 翻译

自从我们离开以来，疟疾已经杀死了十个人

酋长继续说话

奈特看着地上的一堆泥土

雷切尔·莱恩（Rachel Lane）被埋在那里

他所认识的最勇敢的人

因为她不惧怕死亡

她欢迎死亡 她的

灵魂终于与上帝和平相处

她的身体永远躺在她所爱的人中间

她不希望任何人成为 伤心

她不赞成

流泪 奈特也没有什么可以给

她 他几乎不认识她 但无论如何他的心都在

痛

自从

他离开潘塔纳尔之后，

他每天都在想她 他梦见她 感觉到她的抚摸

听到她的声音 想起 d 她的智慧，

她教他祈祷

，给了他希望，

他从未遇到过像雷切尔莱恩这样的人

，他非常想念她

，酋长说我们不能待太久 jv

说，当我们到达时，精神将疟疾归咎于

我们 第一次来

他们不高兴见到我们

他有东西要给你看

纳特慢慢地跟着酋长走进

瑞秋的

小屋 酋长指着一张小桌子上的一个盒子

那个盒子里有东西给你

jb

为我翻译

是的

她知道 她快要死了 她让

酋长看守她的小屋，

如果美国人来了，然后把盒子拿给他看，

里面有第二封

用葡萄牙语打字和写的信

内特再次阅读遗嘱 1 月 6 日是

他走出科伦巴医院的那一天

不是做梦

她会抚摸他并告诉他他

不会死

然后她写了她的

遗嘱 把第二封信给了 jv 并

告诉他读

它是来自一位律师

jb 说

他说他看到了 rachel Lane porter

在他位于科伦巴的办公室签署她的遗嘱

精神很好

，她知道她在做

什么，还有其他人签名

他们走进了

阳光，酋长双手交叉在

胸前，他想让他们离开，

纳特从包里拿出相机，

拍了照片 热，

他做的坟墓保持着她的意志，当他

跪在她的坟墓旁时，

他们找到了小径，

随着树木越来越茂密，朝树林

走去 州和保护

它，然后她帮助的数百万人

将有一个地方说谢谢，

但这是她最不

希望酋长在他们上船时说些什么

他说他不希望我们回来

合资 说

告诉他他没什么好担心

的

ow 再次统治了

现在基督徒的 epicas 会发生什么

jv 停止马达并

用桨引导船 水流很慢

，水很光滑

纳特在两分钟内小心地打开了卫星

电话

他正在和 josh 通话

告诉我她 签了信 乔希

喊道 你不必大喊 乔希 我

能听到你很抱歉

告诉我她签了字

她签了一封信但不是我们的

她死了 乔希

她两周前去世 疟疾

她像她父亲一样留下了遗嘱

你有吗

是的 很安全

一切都进入信托 我是

受托人

现在

什么都没有发生

乔希说 troy phelan 的遗嘱已付清 他的

财产归

瑞秋所有 车祸总是发生

有一天丈夫死了 妻子

死了

第二天钱

给你