Chapter 28
AS EXPECTED, THE VISIT TO EDMUNDS, EDMUNDS, SLEIGHT AND RACKHAM, Solicitors and Commissioners for Oaths had been a waste of time but nonetheless, the ground had to be covered.
The senior partner, Septimus Rackham creaked as he stood up to greet Collingwood and Flanagan as they were shown into his office. Rackham was ancient and bent, with thin white hair curled in spiralling wisps about protuberant red ears and square-rimmed pince- nez perched precariously on the tip of a long pointed nose. Shaking hands with him was like shaking hands with a bundle of dry twigs, complete with flaking bark thought Flanagan. The act of shaking hands with Collingwood and Flanagan appeared to exhaust Lawyer Rackham and he collapsed back into his chair before waving his visitors to a pair of hard
