Wherein you showed a lot of sense, for Ira J., having altered his
will in your favour, apparently had no time before he died to
alter it again in somebody else's, which he would most certainly
have done if he had lived long enough, for his chief recreation
seems to have been making his will. To my certain knowledge he has
made three in the last two years. I've seen them. He was one of
those confirmed will-makers. He got the habit at an early age, and
was never able to shake it off. Do you remember anything about the
man?'
'It isn't possible!'
'Anything's possible with a man cracked enough to make freak wills
and not cracked enough to have them disputed on the ground of
insanity. What did you do to him at Marvis Bay? Save him from
drowning?'
'I cured him of slicing.'
'You did what?'
'He used to slice his approach shots. I cured him.'
'The thing begins to hang together. A certain plausibility creeps
into it. The late Nutcombe was crazy about golf. The governor used
to play with him now and then at Walton Heath. It was the only
thing Nutcombe seemed to live for. That being so, if you got rid
of his slice for him it seems to me, that you earned your money.
The only point that occurs to me is, how does it affect your
amateur status? It looks to me as if you were now a pro.
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