Twenty-nine“What do you mean the governor won’t do it? You were supposed to have this all sorted. No hitches.”
Senator Hector de Vile paced the length of his Russ Hotel suite and swung back to glare at Ramsden Meadows. “This is getting out of hand. The man has got to be stopped.”
De Vile resumed his armchair in the sumptuous sitting room.
“When he began this caper he was nothing more than a gadfly. An inconvenient nuisance. Now he’s becoming a rallying point for a full-scale winemaker revolt, with his stories of how the setup in France only benefits the negociants and warning them we don’t want the same arrangements here. Thanks to your bumbling, it’s got completely out of hand.”
Ramsden Meadows’ Adam’s apple bobbed in his throat, as if the man was containing his response, before launc
