“Just at this time Rudy gets examined by a specialist. The specialist tells him that the only chance he’s got if he wants to live even for another year is to come down and live in a place like this where the climate’s right.
“Well, you can bet I didn’t feel so good when I discovered that Granworth had practically grabbed off every bean that Rudy had in the world, so I reckoned I’d go along to New York and have a show-down with this Granworth Aymes. I reckoned this wasn’t going to be too difficult because Granworth had always been trying to make play for me but I wasn’t falling for it—I didn’t like his style, at least not so’s you’d notice it.
“I go along to New York, and I saw Granworth Aymes on January 10, two days before he committed suicide, and I told him straight that I had heard th
