CHAPTER 6James Early was worried as well as puzzled. “Boss,” he wailed, “this here Pool guy has got not only the forty-five thousand dollars that the suckers put up, but your forty-five thousand seeds, too. On top of that, you’re out ten thousand dollars more.”
“Not ten thousand dollars, James,” corrected Mr. Clackworthy. “I have collected five thousand dollars of that in salary and expenses to myself.”
“How you gonna get your own jack back, much less the kale belongin’ to them other bozos?”
“This very afternoon, James, you shall see the whole scheme unfolded. As a stockholder in the Jiffy Auto Rim Co., you are invited to attend the stockholders’ meeting at two o’clock this afternoon. We shall also at this hour hold the financial obsequies of poor Jiffy.”
At two o’clock the meeting was
