Chapter SixteenFrom the computer I began to piece together a trail of envy and bitterness going back centuries, only to re-emerge forty-nine years ago when the War in Europe was ending.
The Clark family fortune came from oil. They owned over 140,000 acres of land at the southern tip of Texas and were bordered on their eastern side by a neighbour who never knew how to forget. The Clarks were latecomers to Texas, having started in the oil business in 1860 in the region known as the Appalachian Mountain basin. News of strikes in Texas travelled fast through the salt and oil drillers and when Horatio Clark sank his first Texan well in 1874 he had a lot of catching up to do to match his neighbours' wealth. But fortune favoured him, and within two years he had not only matched the accumulated w
