UPON HIS DEATH BED
                                                            
                                                                               1

                                                 In the Series of The Front House Jumbies

                                                                             BY

                                                                     Kharis Macey


     In this novel, we explore the nature of John Edward Simpson, head of Simpson Industries and patriarch of the Simpson family.  Here, without a doubt, we know that while he still draws his breath, he continues to control the family's wealth with the vengeance pushing him towards his grave.

     His body, old and riddled with pain, forces him to experience the various stages of dying.  This
phenomenon, readily incurring his anger, transforms his already caustic personality into a wild boar, During which time, he accused his servant, Sheela Bacchus, of infidelity against her husband Ramlall.
    
    Yet, in spite of his angry outbursts against his servant, he is unable to convince his son that she should be removed from his employ, immediately.  Moreover, unable to control the time of his death, he turned his anger with God towards the nurse, Sister Agnes, and began to openly mock her devotion to the Holy Spirit. 

     During Payton's time at his father's bedside, the old man readily admitted to his past indiscretions.  Although, seeking forgiveness from God and from his son, he continued to plan the permanent silence of his sister and her family, through their exclusion from his final Will.

     Payton, the only family allowed to sit in vigil at his bedside, unknowingly assured his father, the privilege of controlling his every thought and action, from his death bed.  The bond between father and son, strongly knotted, could not be undone by his confessions, as was the confidence of John Simpson.

     However, learning that the old man had fathered a son while he fought in the trenches of France, had not only disappointed Payton, but caused him to mistrust his father.  This was especially true of John Simpson's sketchy account of Dalia's existence.  Dalia Mendonza was the young man's mother.

     Although, sensing the growing emotional distance between them, he continued to hold unto the single secret, which could possibly set his son's heart free of anger.  It was the very anger, which kept him prisoner in his mind, and chained him to John Simpson's psychological manipulation.