The Two Faces of January (2014)
“It said, in part: Dear Mac, No news is good news and that’s the way it is. Seven new subscribers this week and the proceeds as usual deposited, less my commission. Shall be expecting your dividend instructions shortly on Canadian Star’s semi-annual. . . .
It meant that Bob had had no trouble as yet from the police. This was the second letter from Bob, and he’d had one in Paris from Vic, his salesman in Dallas. The police hadn’t come around to Vic or Bob asking them if they knew a Howard Che...ever or a William S. Haight or, thank God, a Chester MacFarland. Wm S. Haight was the name Chester stamped on his dividend checks as Treasurer of the Canadian Star Company, Inc. Seven new subscribers was quite good, Chester thought, considering he had written Bob last month not to make any effort to get new people until further notice. Bob might have taken in fifty thousand dollars from the seven people, perhaps more. Certificates were issued to the stock buyers, dividends were paid in modest but regular amounts, and if the stock never did quite get on the Canadian exchange in the newspapers, so long as the stockholders got their dividends, why should they complain?MoreLess
It meant that Bob had had no trouble as yet from the police. This was the second letter from Bob, and he’d had one in Paris from Vic, his salesman in Dallas. The police hadn’t come around to Vic or Bob asking them if they knew a Howard Che...ever or a William S. Haight or, thank God, a Chester MacFarland. Wm S. Haight was the name Chester stamped on his dividend checks as Treasurer of the Canadian Star Company, Inc. Seven new subscribers was quite good, Chester thought, considering he had written Bob last month not to make any effort to get new people until further notice. Bob might have taken in fifty thousand dollars from the seven people, perhaps more. Certificates were issued to the stock buyers, dividends were paid in modest but regular amounts, and if the stock never did quite get on the Canadian exchange in the newspapers, so long as the stockholders got their dividends, why should they complain?MoreLess
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