Chapter Twenty-Four
Just Business — Nothing Personal
With the worst of his suspicions about Anne having been dismissed by d**k, Don went back to work the following week with new-found enthusiasm. There was even something of a spring in his step. He found himself genuinely enjoying his role as a manager, and even the bookkeeping he’d been so afraid of was becoming less of a mystery.
Don successfully chased down customers with several overdue invoices and thereby brought some much-needed income to the estate bank account. He even managed to get a couple of the recalcitrant tenant farmers to cough up some of the arrears they owed in rent. Seeing this steadily increasing flow of cash coming in, the local bank manager was reluctantly persuaded to grant an extension on the outstanding loan re
