Now Miss Ess had her choice of clients as she had no debts and a hefty cushion in the bank. She also claimed permanent title to a variety of land holdings and to a safety deposit box or two stashed around the world with things that were more precious than money. The only reason she decided to wait and not toss David out on his ear was curiosity. She wondered just exactly could be wrong in his world that he needed her help.
She asked just what help she could be to him…..
He replied that he would prefer to have this confidential as Humphry was quietly in the corner of the room getting ready to take notes.
She told him..”get out now if you can’t trust my judgement!” “My assistant and I have no secrets.”
Humphry just nodded to her with one dip of his head.
Mr. Sealift bowed his head and apologized. He knew he had to tread carefully now. There was noone as skilled as Miss Ess and he knew he only had one chance to get her help.
He started by telling her all about his family and their history. she waved his explanation away in dismissal. She knew all the basics.
Although what she didn’t know, of course was why he was here.
He sighed loudly…and looked up at her with pleading eyes.
“What I need your help with is finding out who is the leader in our organization who deals with the cartels. I want to make a start at making the name Sealift one to be proud of.
“I have gotten nothing but the run-around from everyone for the last two years. That’s what I started trying to do as soon as I found out just exactly what my “family” has been up to. Since my parent’s deaths when I was little, I have been raised by my nanny Mrs.Doubtlake.”
Miss Ess started to interrupt, and he put up a pleading hand to let him continue………….
So, the story unfolds…Miss Ess decided to see what else David had to say on the matter at hand…He said that he wanted to continue with his background for the moment. The main people he thought may be involved to start with were…His uncle Alfred Sylvester Sealift. He was mostly the head of the main part of the organization. Next was Percival Andrew Ignatious Nathaniel Sealift, his cousin, Then, there was Beaumont Ulyses Theodore Tyrone Sealift. He was the younger brother of Percival. They were the related members of the family that were involved in the day to day running of the empire. The Boys were both managers of smaller branches of the business in some of the ports in lesser major cities. However, each had to look after at least two offices and control large holdings on their own.
Since David was just becoming soon of age, they would have to give up a large portion of their individual businesses to him. It had been only theirs to oversee while he was a child. He would in fact become the main head of the entire conglomerate in a matter of days. He wanted Miss Ess to know all of the names of this bunch in case one of them was using a partial version of any of them for nefarious purposes………..to be continued…..be sure to check out the first part of the story…scroll down the stories to find it….