The Carpetbaggers
“He got to his feet quickly and walked to the connecting door. He opened it and found his uncle Bernie seated in his chair, red faced and angry, gasping for breath. He was trying to shake some pills out of the inverted bottle in his hand.
David quickly filled a glass with water from the carafe on the desk and handed it to Norman. "What happened?" Norman swallowed the two pills and put down the glass. He looked up at David. "Why didn't I go into the cloak-and-suit business with my brother, your uncle Louie?" David knew no answer was expected, so he waited patiently until Norman continued. "Fifty, a hundred suits they make a day. Everything is calm, everything is quiet. At night, he goes home. He eats. He sleeps. No worries. No ulcers. No aggravations. That's the way a man should live. Easy. Not like a dog. Not like me." David asked again, "What happened?" "As if I haven't got enough troubles," Norman complained, "our stockholders say we're losing too much money. I run to New York to explain.
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