‘It isn’t working as we had planned, Edward. You spend too much time away from the mill and leave me to do most of the work. The accounting is behind, we have monies not receipted and bills not paid. A tardy business is not going to be a good one, that I learned from my father and my master tinsmith. Our partnership needs to be reconsidered.’
James Tedder had been mulling over the situation at the mill for some days: if he severed ties with Edward Yates he would be doing all the work instead of most of it, but he would run a tight ship. He was disappointed their partnership had lasted only seven months, but ties would be better cut now than later. He was finding it difficult to worry about Edward Yates while working with James Cullen’s solicitor to finalise his Estate.
Edward Yates took
