— How can’t they have electricity I mean everybody’s got electricity, I mean you just turn on the…
— That’s what that Hyde idiot that Mister Hyde you sent out with your appliances that’s what he thought, the little talk he wrote bringing them civilization he even sent you a copy in this mess somewhere do you want to read it? Markets production lines what America’s all about till they came after him with…
— No but, no but wait a second was he…
— He was out there waving a hair dryer at them shouting come and get me they did too when that awful kid of his started…
— No but wait Bast wait wait was that wasn’t this same Mister Hyde that’s holy, this kid was he…
— Up there with his knives and coils of rope blowing the Call to the Colors on his bugle he would have been scalped if he’d had enough hair to…
— No but I, not this same kid I, this same Mister Hyde at the school? How could…
— Well you hired him didn’t you?
— No I mean, like I mean how did I know that’s where he works I thought…
— This kid of his you knew he was going didn’t you? he’s a friend of yours isn’t he?
— No but, no I mean he just said he’s getting this special permission to go on this here very important trip with his father so he’ll write this here essay what America has to protect and all where, but what happened where…
— Somebody finally got him with a shovel they’re holding his father till you give them this thirty million dol…
— Dollars? thirty million dollars for him? I mean what do they think we…
— The thirty million you already agreed on for this twenty year lease they want it now in cash, Charley Yellow Brook drove me to the bus in that smashed up Cadillac they…
— No but wait a second I mean we already agreed we’ll give them it in these royalties out of earnings I mean why should they get it off us now before we even get to…
— Because this here neat history you fixed them up with, it got them so upset about that thousand mile winter hike they’re afraid the government will send them back to that original treaty reservation and put this one up for sale they want the money to buy it that’s all, just give them the money and…
— What do you mean just give them the money! this old man Hyde you think he’s worth like thirty mil…
— I don’t think he’s worth a nickel no! but if they have to buy something that’s already theirs you’ve got what you wanted haven’t you? these leases? You’ve already agreed to thirty mil…
— No but that’s different than like getting it all at once…
— Where do you ever get it borrow it, that’s all you ever talk about building these here assets so you can borrow another three five ten what’s the difference it’s just numbers isn’t it? Just numbers on paper half the time you don’t even know where the dot goes you don’t even…
— No but you didn’t already tell them we’ll do it did you? I mean like give them this here whole lump thirty mil…
— Of course I did, Charley Yellow Brook yes I gave him my word we’d…
— No but look hey…
— Look hey nothing all you’ve done from the start is whine about what I don’t do I don’t take an interest don’t take responsibility well this time I have, I gave him my word I expect to live up to…
— No but anyways that’s okay you don’t have to live up to anything see because you didn’t have this here arthurization to…
— Why didn’t I have it I’m supposed to be executive officer of this whole, this whole mess nobody has to give me authority to…
— No but see that’s the thing you’re not.
— What do you mean I’m not that’s all you’ve been…
— Because you got fired that’s what I been waiting to tell you, I mean after how you loused up everything like I mean I try to fix everything up for you and I mean if it’s just you you’re lousing up but like you go lousing up everything for everybody what do you…
— Stop no stop of all the, get your foot down what do you mean, you’ve been waiting to tell me you fired me while I was gone? Waiting to see if your Indian deal worked out now you think I loused everything up so you decide I was fired before I ever went out there so you won’t have to part with this thirty mil look don’t start getting out these torn up newspapers I don’t want to see them just tell me, is that it?
— No wait a second see it’s not even…
— I mean don’t misunderstand me being fired nothing could be better nothing could make me happier, this helping you out again just this once if I’d never…
— No but it wasn’t me Bast I didn’t fire you they did, you…
— It’s never you it’s always they who’s they, if you’d…
— These here lenders that got pissed off when you sold your stock and screwed up everything that’s what I’m trying to tell you, these here banks and…
— What do you mean when I sold my stock, all I…
— I mean boy you can even ask Nonny if there’s this one thing I always said it’s to keep this here whole thing exactly legal and I mean with all these here option terms and bylaws and all if there’s this here one thing I thought you wouldn’t do it’s that, I mean after I go fix everything up so you don’t get screwed by these income taxes and you go sell it off so it’s taxed like this here straight salary I was saving you from? Like this here suit says you sold at eleven and a half that’s like fifty-seven thousand five hundred I mean that’s over fifty-four thousand dollars, that’s this fifty-three percent rate that’s like they’re taking like twenty-seven thousand just the government that’s not even the state which they’re these real shits boy and I mean that’s not even…
— Wait the only thing you’ve said I ever heard of is this salary you’ve been saving me from that’s the whole…
— No but that’s not even counting all this legal stuff too, I mean like they’re always saying this here friend in need is this friend indeed boy I must be this real big friend then I…
— It doesn’t mean that it doesn’t mean the one who’s in need, it means the friend who comes to help the one who’s in…
— I know boy I mean you’ve like got this whole fifty-seven thousand dollars and boy am I in nee…
— No now stop look, listen what makes you think I just told you didn’t I? I’ve got thirty-seven cents? What makes you think I sold my stock I just used it to borrow some money, this salary you’ve been saving me from what did you expect me to do I had about four dollars it’s the one thing your neat guy Davidoff’s ever done that made sense, he worked out something with Mister Crawley so I could…
— No but okay what’s the difference, I mean you go sell off your stock for like fifty-seven thousand dollars or you give it to this bank someplace for collateral and loan this here fifty-seven thousand dollars off them then they go sell it for fifty-seven thousand dollars, I mean you still got this here fifty-seven thou…
— I don’t have it! I never had it listen…
— And I mean this whole option thing like when I fixed it up to help you out so instead you’re yelling at me on the phone where were you suppose to get this fifty thousand dollars so you could like exercise it so now you…
— I borrowed it and paid it right back how do you think I…
— No but I mean how could you pay it right back if you didn’t go sell off this here stock that’s what I mean! And I mean anyway there’s this whole law which you can’t loan money off banks to go buy stock with it on top of you even told me that time on the phone you’re not selling it, I mean that’s what’s this here tremendous like disappointment you know Bast? I mean like you didn’t have any confidence in this here whole enterprise and like all this here corporate loyalty where we used each other and all like you didn’t even hardly be…