“Lessingham. Able man but liked to have his own way. I don’t doubt that he’d have come round. I broke it to him rather suddenly. My fault, perhaps.”
“And Captain Wraile?”
“You seem to know all about us, eh? Wraile was willing enough.”
“But Lessingham strongly opposed it?”
“Well, yes. I suppose he did. I thought he was most unreasonable—most ungrateful to me, too—it isn’t everyone who could get Fratten on to their Board.”
“Did Lessingham threaten strong measures if you persisted?”
“He threatened to resign.”
“He didn’t talk of anything more serious—violence, for instance?”
“Violence? Good God, what are you driving at?”
“Is he the sort of man who might go to extreme lengths—even to murder—to get what he wants?”