Disaster!
Have you read this?
Old Nesbitt, his face like thunder, is brandishing a letter in front of my face. His question is rhetorical; obviously I haven’t seen the letter as the envelope it came out of is still on his desk. He thrusts the letter at me and indicates that I should take it, then sits back with his arms folded like some Victorian mill owner regarding an erring waif in his employ.
I read the letter. It is not good news. The letter is from Bagot and Bailey, the only other law firm of any consequence in our town, who beg to inform Nesbitt, Nesbitt and Anderson that Bagot and Bailey are now representing Mr Stokes (Mr Stokes is the man who I mistakenly and quite understandably thought was his twin brother, you may recall). Mr Stokes, through the offices of Bagot and Bailey, is now taking an action for damages in the sum of £50,000 against Nesbitt, Nesbitt and Anderson, in consequence of what happened to him on that day. Apparently, since I more or less forced him to try to keep up with me during our little walk down the street, the injury to his leg has got much worse.
I finish reading the letter and look up at Old Mr Nesbitt.
Well? he says.
If he thinks he can bully me he’s got another think coming. I was only carrying out your orders, I say, cool as a cucumber.
The steam stops emanating from his ears temporarily. Carrying out my orders?
Well I don’t remember your exact words when I asked you how you thought I should deal with the incident on the rugby pitch but it went something like ¦I should be careful to take action only if I was sure that Stokes was feigning injury and that when he played rugby against me he wasn’t perhaps having a good leg day.
The steam from his ears starts up again. But it wasn’t Stokes was it, it was his brother!
Yes but I didn’t know that, did I? It was clearly a case of mistaken identity.
It was clearly a case of you being a fucking Smart Alec!
I now realise that this is very serious, as it’s the time I’ve ever known Old Mr Nesbitt swear in the four years I’ve known him. I very soon hear him swear for the second time.
You’re fucking fired!
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