A Touch of Infinity
“The larger boy, interviewed many years later, had some trouble recalling the incident, but he said that it seemed to him, if his memory was at all dependable, that Frank Blunt had beaten up his five-year-old sister and had appropriated a bar of candy in her possession. Frank Blunt’s second cousin, Lucy, offered the acid comment that the dollar which bought off the larger boy had been appropriated from Frank’s mother’s purse; and three more men whose memories had been jogged offered the informat...ion that Frank had covered his investment by selling protection to the smallest kids at twenty-five cents a kid. Be that as it may; it was a long time ago. The important factor was that it illustrated those two qualities which contributed so much to Frank Blunt’s subsequent success: his gift for appropriation and his ability to make a deal if the price was right.
The story that he got out of secondary school by purchasing the answers to the final exam is probably apocryphal and concocted out of spleen.MoreLess
The story that he got out of secondary school by purchasing the answers to the final exam is probably apocryphal and concocted out of spleen.MoreLess
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