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The first thing people told me was that he killed his wife, the second thing was that he made a huge fortune before he was even forty years old, and the third thing was that he was going to sell Cramond Castle for a million pounds so that he could move to a small island in the Caribbean, where he would fly his own private jet and live a carefree life with female secretaries and mistresses. "My dear, you must not listen to these nonsense." Katie Clyde, the country doctor's wife, said: "Charlie is just a 32-year-old widower who just wants to buy a piece of land in Florida." "But he does have a big family fortune!" I retorted, because everyone regarded him as a complete capitalist.