Chapter 6
There was a stockholders' meeting on Thursday of that week. Jed was usually thoroughly bored by them. He considered them a waste of time. He and Russell Thorpe made the decisions and did the work. The other stockholders merely gave a rubber-stamp approval.
But the formalities had to be observed. So on Thursday morning at five minutes before ten, Jed strolled to the board room and took his usual place at the head of the table. Bess Cridland seated herself at the secretary's desk near Jed to take the notes of the meeting.
Mavis Thorpe arrived promptly at ten o'clock. Jed stood up to greet her. Since her divorce from Russell, she usually stayed away from the company, except for these stockholders' meetings. Jed knew she dreaded them, but she came faithfully to each one.
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