Fortune Takes Flight
Walter Grimsby was an honest man, a loyal man, and it was for these qualities that his employer, the esteemed Mr. Howard Dudley, entrusted him and him alone with a most delicate task. Mr. Dudley was an avid gambler, and in the past few months he’d racked up a debt to Mr. Jamie Burlington in the amount of twenty-thousand. While this hefty sum made little difference to Mr. Dudley, it was of utmost importance that the small fact of his gambling habits remained unknown to all others—including his family. So it was decided that Grimsby, a servant of over two decades, would personally and secretly deliver the owed funds to Mr. Burlington.
