And he asked me to come in.
What it was.
A letter of wishes.
Two pages, signed on the fourteenth of July, 2025, witnessed by Mr Haldane and by a woman from his office.
And it is not a bequest and it is not worth a cent and it never could have been.
It is a letter to the two of them, and a copy to me, and it says in about nine lines that she is leaving Reuben Ackland nothing, deliberately, and that she has made that decision on her own, and that it is not to be read as him being cut out of anything.
And then there is a paragraph about why, which is the whole point of it.
She wrote that if she left me anything at all, her children would spend four years and most of the estate trying to take it back off a boy of twenty-two who works nights.
