![]() She saw it for the first time after a speaking engagement for the Silver Lake Quilters' Guild in South Carolina. She had never seen the quilt before that much she knew to be true. Now she wondered if they had overlooked something, a familial connection lost to memory but documented in a threadbare antique quilt. Her lawyer had told her she was the sole heir, an opinion corroborated by her private detective. ![]() ![]() She had certainly searched long and hard enough for someone else who could assume responsibility of Elm Creek Manor, for as difficult as it was to believe now, at the time she had thought the estate in rural central Pennsylvania too full of unhappy memories to become her home again. When her sister, Claudia, died childless at the age of seventy-seven, Sylvia Bergstrom Compson became the last living descendant of Hans and Anneke Bergstrom and the sole heir to what remained of their fortune. ![]()
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