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Fitz Aucher arranged a legal guardianship for Carolina and younger sister Gabriella. While he traveled the international business circuit, Fitz Aucher lodged Carolina with an elderly couple in one of Rome's most expensive districts. Carolina went on a happy whirl of movies and shopping, rode home weekly in a Rolls-Royce to her old village of Nerola. Fitz Aucher started her studying English, tennis, driving, planned to adopt her formally and take her to London.
A fortnight ago Fitz Aucher died of a heart attack. Last week every daily newspaper in Rome headlined the happy story of La Cenerèntola, the Cinderella girl, who had inherited an estimated $2,000,000 in her benefactor's will. Carolina, the monster's child, had overnight become the richest 17-year-old girl in Italy. She talked happily of building a home for her mother, of praying for the soul of Signor Fitz Aucher, that "very good man," and of going to Texas to see some cowboys.