The new issues of M & S arrived on Monday. Reed had almost forgotten about Christoff having bought them all, but the mystery came flooding back as he pulled them out of the box. Since Brenda was manning the register, he paused in the midst of racking the rest of the shipment to look it over. The cover story was about billionaire philanthropist Cecil Davenport. Like the Vanderbilts or Rockefellers, Davenport was a household name—the kind of name that spoke of old money and breeding. People who lived stratospheres above the normal world. But unlike many of his contemporaries, Davenport was more often in the news for the good things he did with his wealth. Reed dimly remembered having read something about an enterprise he’d entered into with Warren Buffet last year. Something to do with tryin
