What family secret are they hiding in the decaying Spanish house on the hill?

Robert Louis Stevenson today on the Classic Tales Podcast Podcast. Thank you for listening.

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And now, O'Laya by Robert Lewis Stevenson. Now, said the doctor, my part is done, and I may say with some vanity well done.

It remains only to get you out of this cold and poisonous city

and to give you two months of a pure air and an easy conscience.

The last is your affair.

To the first, I think I can help you.

It falls indeed rather oddly, but it was, but the other day the Padre came in from the country and as he and I are old friends

although of contrary professions he applied to me in a matter of distress among some of his parishioners.

This was a family, but you are ignorant of Spain and even the names of our grandees are hardly

known to you.

Suffice it then that they were once great people and are now fallen to the brink of

distribution. Nothing now belongs to them but a Residenceia and certain leagues of Desert Mountain in the greater part of which not even the goat could support life.

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