Brat had worked with horses there & loved it until an accident left him lame.
Brat soon finds himself enjoying the adrenaline &, in a short time, he has convinced the family lawyers & Bee that he is Patrick returned from the dead.īrat's own life has been anonymous enough that he can just tell his own story, apart from the motives for his disappearance & how he found himself in America. He convinces Brat that the scheme can work & coaches him in the part. Loding had grown up at the neighboring estate to Latchetts & knew the family intimately. Loding conceives a scheme to defraud the Ashbys & make his own life as an unsuccessful actor easier. When he runs into Alec Loding on a London street, Loding is overcome by the family resemblance to the Ashbys, mistaking Brat at first for Simon. Brat Farrar was a foundling, brought up in an orphanage. From the beginning, the reader knows that he is not Patrick but an imposter. Just before this milestone, a young man turns up claiming to be Patrick Ashby. Precarious, that is, until Simon, now the heir to his mother's fortune after Patrick's death, turns 21 when he will inherit. Beatrice Ashby (known as Bee) had stepped in to look after her nephews & nieces & take on the running of The Latchetts, the estate & horse stud that would provide a precarious living for the family. His parents had been killed in a plane crash shortly before but his family - twin brother Simon, sisters Eleanor, Jane & Ruth & Aunt Beatrice - & friends had no idea that he was distressed enough to take such a drastic step. He threw himself off a cliff or swam out to sea until he could swim no more.
Patrick Ashby committed suicide when he was just thirteen.
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