William Gaddis - J R

— National Bankruptcy Act filed with the court a proposed arrangement with unsecured creditors specifying the manner in which claims against the comp…

— Beaton!

— In order for yes sir?

— Know anything about these damn mining claims? Monty says they just handed down a decision invalidates every damn one of them who the devil…

— Yes sir you may recall suggesting I initiate an action when they declined Mister Stamper’s original offer. I was able to demonstrate that the claims laws clearly envisage placer mining which presumes large amounts of available water, whereas the entire area these claims comprise is dry as a…

— Monty? Beaton in there demonstrating again he… know you did yes, he… know it damn it forgot about it, any damn reason you can’t leave a memorandum reverse your position before you clean out your desk there? Want this whole piece to hang together Alberta Western sites right straight down through the… Know it yes just that damn reserva… just arrested those damn Brook brothers didn’t they? Picture in yesterday’s paper had them dragged out of BIA in there tearing up the peapatch after that show they put on at the res… FBI what…? Stolen car count all the damn FBI’s ever good for, always find another fool salesman damn well think assault on a federal marshal they’d be… Claims to the whole damn thing wiped out weren’t they? Supposed to revert to the Bureau of Land Management but they’re in here suing Alsaka and the parent on those leases and damages biggest damn claim the company’s got against it, leftwing press fanning the damn flames end up with a jury seen too many fool movies hand them every damn penny they… Win it they’d have the money to bid it in buy the whole damn thing back heard one of them on a phone tape shouting he’d… what? By God no didn’t authorize didn’t ask for it Monty how big a damn fool do you… don’t know no tapes just turned up, phone at their uptown headquarters Beaton couldn’t even find the damn place borrowed a couple of half-baked detectives from Zona came up with a lot of damn bits and pieces worst damn job of… Talking about what…? Don’t know no Beaton’s heard them have to call you back, wade through this foul-mouth secretary they had up there bring those tapes with you Beaton?

— Holders of the company’s yes sir, nine percent convertible subordinated debentures provide for the issuance of eight shares of common stock for each one thousand dollar princip…

— BIA what? Have to talk louder Beaton holding the damn phone a mile away is… wards damn right they’re government wards, been feeding at the public trough since Custer’s last… good, damn good way to… need every damn cent they can get, handle it that way never even get near Appeals Court stop the whole damn thing in its tracks who’s… good yes straighten Broos out when I get him Stamper’s people scratching around said just lowgrade coal told them to talk to that little Jew on the power commission might gasify it set up a… who Stamper’s outfit? Beaton no hasn’t told me a damn word about it standing here bab… shouldn’t be no just make damn sure Bureau of Land Management’s signed this ninety-nine year lease with them before you clean out your desk there, less damn publicity the better Beaton here tells me that damn Stamper woman’s kicking up her hee… Crawley? what’s… Know he handled it but… Don’t have a damn thing to do with this operation Monty no Stamper set him up on that National Parks stunt tried to get into the Everglades hundred thousand acres drilling rights Seminoles and Mickeysuckies sitting on there, district next door supplies fresh water to Miami broken down retired population only fun’s flushing toilets lease that out they’d hand them their scalps damn it Beaton trying to mash my ear off? Told you Crawley don’t know his elbow from… can’t help it damn it crybaby called me too said he was being thrown to the… know that Monty but by God pulls a stunt like this goes under peak of this crisis in investor confidence no business getting into those damn bellies in the first place did he? Expects the Exchange to put up twenty-eight million bail him out doing their damndest down there right now just to hold things together, may get up two or three million settle his clients with eight or ten cents on the dol… No damn choice Monty let these small investors up to two three hundred thousand go under bank feeling the pinch had to put all Crawley’s street name collateral everything Wiles could salvage into Emily Cates and Francis Joubert way the damn market’s sliding faster we redeem them pay both foundations back the bet… Had to pull Wiles out didn’t we? So damn much underwriting bring charges like that against him and Crawley see the whole thing go like a stack of dominoes, SEC in there wetting their damn pants just slapped their wrists on this know your client rule damn fools both of them get up at that hearing say they never laid their damn eyes on him heard even his own fool directors said they’d never…

— Excuse me could I just get the patient’s arm again he shouldn’t be…

— Who…? No only one says he knows him well’s that boob you had brown nosing around Typhon tried to give the damn company away David somebody, just won this fool Advertising Man of the Year award… same damn thing here got the bit in his teeth now he puts the blame upstairs tries to subpoena his boss in this Nobili hearing don’t turn up for it FDC probably just let it… Wouldn’t even show up to defend that erratic management suit handed over his whole damn company didn’t he? think he’ll show up to take this boob off the hook? Don’t even defend that paternity suit picture of her in the paper jury take one look he would have won it hands dow… Don’t know Crawley said Honduras thought he wanted to buy it damn nerve called me at the bank sounded like he was at the bottom of a rain barrel hardly hear what he… No some deal wanted me to help him out just this once set up a string of sounded like only banks your family ever need, said he still had a friend over at Chase… got off fast as I damn well could just told him to quit calling the press issuing these damn statements, reads the parent company’s made debtor in possession tells me he’s the damn parent says he’s bringing countersuit next damn thing all he wants back’s the corporate seal, says he… Not worth the damn trouble no, marshals sealed some off uptown picked some up at the Waldorf heard Zona’s half-baked detectives found some hid in a school locker someplace but… He called who…? Well by God can you… just says it looks like they followed the damn letter of the damn law damn it Monty 1RS says his social security number’s same one on a million sample cards in dime store wallets, filed under that don’t constitute massive fraud does it? Only damn suit I know against him now’s the short swing stock conversion he pulled in that mill takeover back at the start, disgruntled damn stockholder lost her drawers in it place a ghost town only ratable left’s the damn cemetery since this bunch pulled the mills down shipped the looms to South America on a tax dodge and set up in Georgia with cheap equipment under deductible maintenance, too cheap to supervise it whole damn thing went up on some cracker’s used car lot tried to hang onto their tax umbrella with a shipload of damn Hong Kong sweaters lawsuit don’t touch him does it? Statement in the paper he was working for the stockhol… cut the whole damn thing loose cemetery’s part of this fool health plan franchised it out to these funeral people some dancy cowboy Beaton picked up with, this junk car cracker down there wants to sue sitting duck let him sue the damn franchi… What I just said calls the Attorney General just sounds like he’s trying to get his ex… says because that’s what you do damn it that’s what I mean! Sounds like he’s just trying to get his executive officer off the damn hook Beaton here just hold on, Beaton? What’s this damn suit against this what’s his name executive officer just talking about him.