The Mushroom Man (2012)
“We’d let Nigel carry on being Mr Nice. Wylie told us that under the terms of the will left by Janet Dewhurst her husband drew a salary and a percentage of the profits until Georgina was eighteen. The rest was held in trust for her. Then, providing he had remained unmarried, they split the company fifty-fifty.
‘Mrs Dewhurst was quite adamant about the marriage clause,’ Wylie told us. ‘She was determined that Georgina would not be brought up by a step-mother.’ He was not so forthcoming when I... queried him about Dewhurst’s efforts to raise the ransom money. I gave him the look that said I was thinking about pushing burning matchsticks under his fingernails and he opened up slightly. He confessed that, as trustees, his firm had given Dewhurst permission to look for a buyer or do some hefty borrowing.
‘Can you do that?’ I asked.
He looked embarrassed and fidgeted with a fountain pen. ‘We consider we are acting in the best interests of our clients,’ he said.MoreLess
‘Mrs Dewhurst was quite adamant about the marriage clause,’ Wylie told us. ‘She was determined that Georgina would not be brought up by a step-mother.’ He was not so forthcoming when I... queried him about Dewhurst’s efforts to raise the ransom money. I gave him the look that said I was thinking about pushing burning matchsticks under his fingernails and he opened up slightly. He confessed that, as trustees, his firm had given Dewhurst permission to look for a buyer or do some hefty borrowing.
‘Can you do that?’ I asked.
He looked embarrassed and fidgeted with a fountain pen. ‘We consider we are acting in the best interests of our clients,’ he said.MoreLess
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