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THE SAME DAY, THE SECOND of November, 2017, Houston, gloomy, the air heavy but moving, roiling like water about to boil, the humidity was wedged against a cold front pushing down from the north. Will sat in his office thinking about Eleanor, who’d just left. She was hard to attend to sometimes, she was so beguiling, a goldfinch perched on a branch. Larry Sutter, from ERIS, called.
“Global Trading has come around, I think,” Larry said. “They’re willing to continue without any guaranty, but they want more time to do property diligence before they sign.”
“I suggested that months ago, Larry.” Will was sure that Gerald would find other issues to hound him about. And the same was true for Brashner.
“You’re right. I would like to tell them they’ve run out of time. But we think that if we
