Two Brothers

Law Student London, 1956

STONE TURNED OFF the gas beneath the kettle and made a pot of tea.

He lit the grill for toast and went into the living room to gather up his law books.

The following summer he would be taking his Bar exams via correspondence course. It would be his third attempt to pass but recently he had been ignoring his studies. The letter which purported to have come from Dagmar had chased such things from his mind. Taking his tea and toast, Stone spread the books across the kitchen table and tried to focus.

The words swam before his eyes: torts, jurisprudence, criminal, civil, family, property, commercial.

Amazing how much law it took to run a civilized country.

Hitler had always despised the law. And lawyers too.

Stone swore he would be a lawyer yet.