The Case Of The Difficult Husband

The Case of the Difficult HusbandJaume Gelabert was a heavily-built, ill-kempt, morose Majorcan lad of 17. His father had died in 1936 at the siege of Madrid, but on the losing side, and therefore without glory or a dependents' pension; his mother a few years later. He lived by himself in a dilapidated cottage near our village of Muleta, where he cultivated a few olive terraces and a lemon grove. We became good neighbors.This was June 1952 -- just before Willie Fedora appeared in Muleta and rent...