— Cut that make it one for twenty, trying to make a market in it at a half get this damn thing back on my ear, what’s that Monty…? No what damn good would… get’s him barred from trading that’s all, don’t serve any damn purpose to… Well by God no, just make it look worse for the whole damn business community that’s why damn it! SEC’s civil complaint put the whole damn thing into the hands of a receiver didn’t it? had this Bast and this J R what’s his damn name barred from running any publicly owned companies didn’t it? harshest penalty the damn SEC can ask for isn’t it? Can’t bring criminal charges by God Monty push this too far get every damn fool who ever lost a nickel in the market writing his damn congressman to… No but by God that’s what the whole damn thing’s all about! Civil complaints nothing but these damn lawyers having lunch fight over a few damn prepositions but by God push Congress too far like walking in a damn hencoop at night wake them all up, start cackling about criminal provisions pass a damn law before they know it only damn face you’ll see in the Union Club be some black with a tray, already got these two barred from trading on any major exchange haven’t they? do any damn good to add one more to the pile? Federal damn prisons already beginning to look like the damn Harvard Business School inside blacks running loose in the streets cutting throats but every damn paper you pick up’s somebody in a Brooks suit on his way to Leavenouch! By…
— Please you’re overexciting the patient he’s going up in a few minutes, if this shot doesn’t quiet him they…
— Get that damn phone back here! Monty? damn babying let go of me there, fifty other damn companies to worry about play nursemaid to this outfit taking too much of my damn time thought you could take on this recapitalization program when you get up here may have your hands full with Typhon ought to get right over there see where Pythian stands on the… don’t know maybe Cutler could handle it, litigation coming in corporate structure like something a damn monkey put together think he’d be… haven’t no not since they… not a damn word from her no got her picture on one of this outfit’s magazines here damned if I can… hasn’t mentioned it no, Beaton?
— Management appreciates your patience during this most trying and difficult period sincerely yours yes sir.
— Talked to Emily since they got back?
— Yes sir. In fact sir, I think you should prepare yoursel…
— Says he’s talked to her just need some more time to come around she… Know that damn it but she’s got the boy back don’t she? Didn’t think she’d be so damn mean about it either maybe Cutler can talk some damn sense to her now they’re settled… only damn reason she wouldn’t come in sign those powers when she took off for Geneva just had to prove she Beaton! damn phone ringing there have to tell you to pick it up? maybe’s Broos, Monty…?
— Yes sir but it’s the room phone I, hello…?
— Know she’s Freddie’s damn guardian on this well as you do Monty, anything went wrong no signature on these powers have the other trustees by the short hair give her leverage to control both foundations everything in them any damn reason something should go wrong…?
— Then you’re at the Maine end Colonel yes, what… They have? When do you ex…
— Planned to miss three dividends in the first place didn’t we? No damn voting rights on it unless we miss the fourth one, pay that everything’s under control got Beaton here keeping an eye on the… who Freddie? Any word on Freddie Beaton?
— You mean the actual reconstituting hasn’t even excuse me, no sir Mrs Cutler is placing ads in the pap…
— Still out loose Monty no Wiles thought he saw him in Tripler’s elevator while back with Emily must have been wrong, Beaton says she’s got ads in the pap… must have got it from the doorman when she moved that drunk into their old place up on Seventy… Joubert no don’t know she… don’t know must have paid him off, damn lulu need it for lawyers job in a Swiss bank there dipped in the cash drawer bought back into Nobili when this outfit ran it up to nineteen turned right around wiped it out with their own Far East market nothing left but what…?
— Lost in transmission but that’s prepos…
— Same damn fool yes got the bit in his teeth there tried to give them away too, launched a big drug donation dates running out thought they’d deduct at retail, IRS disallows it lets them write off at cost under eighty thousand wholesale value damn near two million, drugs show up in every black market in the Pacific dates expire damn druggists returning them hand over fist get the wholesale price back nothing left of the company but this happy pill Zona’s on lose that patent suit all they’ve got’s this damn green aspirin FDA’s got them up on not worth… Depends what Broos comes up with Beaton standing here gossiping on the damn phone trying to reach him on… what, called Broos…?
— But he’s, but by train…?
