21/27 The only question is, whether it was his interest to do so." "Mr.Franklin Blake's debts," I remarked, "are matters of family notoriety." "And Mr.Godfrey Ablewhite's debts have not arrived at that stage of development yet. But there happen to be two difficulties in the way of your theory, Miss Clack. I manage Franklin Blake's affairs, and I beg to inform you that the vast majority of his creditors (knowing his father to be a rich man) are quite content to charge interest on their debts, and to wait for their money. There is the first difficulty--which is tough enough. |