The Two Lords Of Wealdhant Manor - Plot & Excerpts
He frowned at this list and strained to remember some source of funds which he might have forgotten, but only succeeded at remembering another two names of his debtors. On the right half of the paper, the five gentlemen who owed him money were all friends of his who were excellent company at drinking or gambling, but not much in the habit of repaying debts. Worse, then, was the left half of the paper, which contained a detailed list of the debts Algernon owed which would soon come due: landlord, public house tab, three creditors who had not been satisfied with the seizure of his townhouse, the former staff of the townhouse who had not been paid when the creditors seized his other assets, the stables where he had kept his horse while he still had one, and Algernon’s fellow investors in the steamship venture. He didn’t even owe any money to the last, and was as much a victim as any of them; but the other investors had universally gotten it into their heads that Algernon, being the primary investor and most enthusiastically dedicated to the research of the proposed new engine, had some idea as to where the project management had absconded.
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