18
Heckling the Young Master
A certain Duke’s son, very young, was finishing his campaign by addressing the electors near his father’s estates, when at question time an old man at the back shocked everyone by asking, “Sonny, does yer mother know you’re out?”
“Yes,” shouted back the candidate with a show of anger, “and she’ll know I’m ‘in’ tomorrow.”
And she did.
The interjector proved to be the old gardener at home, whom the young man had paid one guinea to ask the question.
Advocate, 1933
Alastair Blanshard was not happy.
“You were given clear and specific instructions,” he spat, staring at his newspaper. “You were to lie low.”
Rowland was not entirely sure how Blanshard knew he had scrubbed the plaza with Göring, but it seemed he did.
“They called it off before I gave my name,”
