— As I understand it sir he wanted the university renamed to honor his achievement in the arts in return for a collection of his own paintings, which he presented with extremely high evaluations for tax purposes supported by letters from a correspondence school comparing his brilliance to Norman Rockwell, apparently all the correspondence students got similar letters and of course since the law changed the IRS has flatly disallowed his paintings as…
— What changed what law Beaton what are you talking about.
— By God another county heard from she still here? thought she’d turned into a…
— The law which now permits him to deduct only the cost of his materials ma’am, paints brushes canv…
— What all I can deduct is the housepaint that ape used on those filthy atrocities I paid good money for? You mean the law changed while you stood there with your thumb in your…
— No no ma’am no, as a collector of course you may deduct the full market value of the paintings we’ve already established with your cousin on the museum’s board this law applies to the artist himself, if Mister Schepperman were to donate his own paintings to the museum for instance, he would be allowed only the actual cost of the materials he used in producing them just as an author is allowed paper costs, erasers typewriter rib…
— Ape he wouldn’t donate the sweat off his…
— Damn it Zona be quiet, got your damn cheese got your free pills don’t you? Got your damn parking space back what the devil else…
— Parking space what am I supposed to do squat in it? You get Nick fired expect me to…
— Fired him when these fool detectives of yours said they kept seeing your damn car parked outside this outfit we’re picking up the pieces of what the devil was he doing there, making pastoral calls? Boobs even carting off their trash said they had some more leads Beaton?
— I doubt it sir, they’d spent two days in Brooklyn tracing the owner of a car with license K four six six when this was identified as simply a concerto of Mozart’s, and of course these tapes they…
— Told you don’t want to know about that damn it say you brought them along?
— Yes sir but as you, I mean to say they’re only fragments a few words and long gaps filled with splashing sounds that obliter…
— Just play them damn it see if Emily shows up anyplace, ever hear her voice on them?
— But, but no sir I, why why would…
— See how she was mixed up with this outfit got her picture all over their damn magazine there don’t she?
— Oh, no no sir that’s…
— It’s not Emily I just told you that it’s some revolting nurse I said get me some crackers, most disgusting magazine I’ve ever seen tummy bulge sagging tits laxatives this revolting creature doing yogi tricks in a body stocking here show him this Beaton. There, does that look like Emily?
— Here sir it’s, there’s a surface resemblance but I believe this is the wife of the parent company’s personnel manager the man who’s just been lost in, who’s taking part in this Teletravel trial apparently he used his influence to get her this position with an aid program to Ind…
— Which position show him the top one Beaton show him el hedouli, can you see Emily doing that? Ninny wouldn’t lift her leg for the king of…
— Shacked up with that drunk uptown didn’t she? Sure he’s out of the damn picture Beaton?
— According to information from the doorman he was never seen there again after she…
— Monty still mad how she flew the coop like that, told him maybe Cutler can talk some damn sense to her, why the devil she’d…
— Cutler’s worse than she is, he wouldn’t get into her pants without an engraved invitation why do you think she chose him she’s still a cold ninny that’s why, you’ve seen her since they came back isn’t she Beaton?
— No she, I haven’t seen her ma’am I’ve only talked to her on the pho…
— She still sounds like a cold ninny doesn’t she? Did you hear what she said about me at the…
— She sounded very cold yes ma’am she, she sounded frozen inside in fact when…
— Go out spend fifty cents on their wedding present stack of damn placemats Zona what the devil you expect where’s that handkerchief, damn it Beaton told you to…
— And I want my detectives back too they lost that ape when you took them and if anything happens to him Beaton I want to know it, his price could double and leave me sitting with my thumb in my…
— Yes ma’am of course in the event of his death his estate would be assessed the full market value you’ve established on any work remaining in his posses…
— Anything remaining anywhere belongs to me what about that heap of junk he went out and spent my good money on.
— Yes ma’am he sold a large section of it we immediately attached the bank dep…
— Unloaded it on this same damn outfit we’re talking about Zona, fool art foundation they set up paid out twenty thousand for it handed ninety more to some damn band want that money put in escrow Beaton, find out how legal that damn founda…
— You put that money in escrow Beaton I’ll put you in escrow I’ll put Mister Katz there in escrow I’ll…
— By God…
