— What changed what law Beaton what are you talking about.
— By God another county heard from she still here? thought she’d turned into a…
— The law which now permits him to deduct only the cost of his materials ma’am, paints brushes canv…
— What all I can deduct is the housepaint that ape used on those filthy atrocities I paid good money for? You mean the law changed while you stood there with your thumb in your…
— No no ma’am no, as a collector of course you may deduct the full market value of the paintings we’ve already established with your cousin on the museum’s board this law applies to the artist himself, if Mister Schepperman were to donate his own paintings to the museum for instance, he would be allowed only the actual cost of the materials he used in producing them just as an author is allowed paper costs, erasers typewriter rib…
— Ape he wouldn’t donate the sweat off his…
— Damn it Zona be quiet, got your damn cheese got your free pills don’t you? Got your damn parking space back what the devil else…
— Parking space what am I supposed to do squat in it? You get Nick fired expect me to…
— Fired him when these fool detectives of yours said they kept seeing your damn car parked outside this outfit we’re picking up the pieces of what the devil was he doing there, making pastoral calls? Boobs even carting off their trash said they had some more leads Beaton?
— I doubt it sir, they’d spent two days in Brooklyn tracing the owner of a car with license K four six six when this was identified as simply a concerto of Mozart’s, and of course these tapes they…
— Told you don’t want to know about that damn it say you brought them along?
— Yes sir but as you, I mean to say they’re only fragments a few words and long gaps filled with splashing sounds that obliter…
— Just play them damn it see if Emily shows up anyplace, ever hear her voice on them?
— But, but no sir I, why why would…
— See how she was mixed up with this outfit got her picture all over their damn magazine there don’t she?
— Oh, no no sir that’s…
— It’s not Emily I just told you that it’s some revolting nurse I said get me some crackers, most disgusting magazine I’ve ever seen tummy bulge sagging tits laxatives this revolting creature doing yogi tricks in a body stocking here show him this Beaton. There, does that look like Emily?
— Here sir it’s, there’s a surface resemblance but I believe this is the wife of the parent company’s personnel manager the man who’s just been lost in, who’s taking part in this Teletravel trial apparently he used his influence to get her this position with an aid program to Ind…
— Which position show him the top one Beaton show him el hedouli, can you see Emily doing that? Ninny wouldn’t lift her leg for the king of…
— Shacked up with that drunk uptown didn’t she? Sure he’s out of the damn picture Beaton?
— According to information from the doorman he was never seen there again after she…
— Monty still mad how she flew the coop like that, told him maybe Cutler can talk some damn sense to her, why the devil she’d…
— Cutler’s worse than she is, he wouldn’t get into her pants without an engraved invitation why do you think she chose him she’s still a cold ninny that’s why, you’ve seen her since they came back isn’t she Beaton?
— No she, I haven’t seen her ma’am I’ve only talked to her on the pho…
— She still sounds like a cold ninny doesn’t she? Did you hear what she said about me at the…
— She sounded very cold yes ma’am she, she sounded frozen inside in fact when…
— Go out spend fifty cents on their wedding present stack of damn placemats Zona what the devil you expect where’s that handkerchief, damn it Beaton told you to…
— And I want my detectives back too they lost that ape when you took them and if anything happens to him Beaton I want to know it, his price could double and leave me sitting with my thumb in my…
— Yes ma’am of course in the event of his death his estate would be assessed the full market value you’ve established on any work remaining in his posses…
— Anything remaining anywhere belongs to me what about that heap of junk he went out and spent my good money on.
— Yes ma’am he sold a large section of it we immediately attached the bank dep…
— Unloaded it on this same damn outfit we’re talking about Zona, fool art foundation they set up paid out twenty thousand for it handed ninety more to some damn band want that money put in escrow Beaton, find out how legal that damn founda…
— You put that money in escrow Beaton I’ll put you in escrow I’ll put Mister Katz there in escrow I’ll…
— By God…
— Please I think you’ll have to leave if the patient can’t…
— Beaton you tell him if he tries that I’ll sue him for, dried up old Raggedy Andy with his tin heart I’ll sue him for impersonating himself for impersonating Mister Katz he’s nobody, he’s a lot of old parts stuck together he doesn’t even exist he started losing things eighty years ago he lost a thumbnail on the Albany nightboat and that idiot classmate of his Handler’s been dismantling him ever since, started an appendectomy punctured the spleen took it out then came the gall bladder that made it look like appendicitis in the first place now look at him, he’s listening through somebody else’s inner ears those corneal transplants God knows whose eyes he’s looking through, windup toy with a tin heart he’ll end up with a dog’s brain and some nigger’s kidneys why can’t I take him to court and have him declared nonexistent, null void nonexistent why can’t I Beaton.
— Well it, it would be a novel case ma’am I doubt if there are precedents and the time it would take to adjudi…
— By God Beaton shut that woman up get the damn phone!
— The patient’s going up in a couple of minutes could you…
— Hold that damn thing closer! who’s… Broos? What’s holding up the damn vote on this loan guaran… who is? Do some horse trading damn it got the vote on his sugar support bill haven’t you? Whole damn economy going to hell in a handbas… read your speech yes damn fine speech something don’t turn the damn Dow around fast we… Know that damn it have to restructure their damn debt first don’t we? Thought I’d turn it over to Monty once this smelter’s off and… By God what’s that got to do with it lot of damn… damn politician yourself don’t know it’s a lot of damn nonsense? Leftwing press drum something up smear anybody they can reach, Monty drew up that smaltite contract before he went into the damn government didn’t he? still working for the damn stockholders when he drew it up wasn’t he? Job he had running Typhon get the best damn deal he could for the stockholders just what he did, takes a salary cut goes to serve his damn country gets this leftwing press hounding him out of office any damn wonder Washington can’t get one single damn good man to… Whole smelting operation over there declared surplus what the damn contract says don’t it? None of their business in the first place, question of the damn national security cobalt stockpile requirements set up damn thing ought to be running right now only damn prob… labor force whole damn Malwi labor force decimated yes how the devil’d that happen, Dé’s people supposed to annex it just heard they walked in these buggers meet them armed to the damn teeth Dé’s bunch panic cut them down like flies go in to clean up find all they had’s toys, pistols carbeens submachineguns rocket launchers every damn weapon you can think of plastic toys poor buggers must have… don’t know damn it maybe Candia what’s left of it, heard that red regime collapsed when Nowunda cleared out probably find him hiding under Milliken’s phone damn it Beaton have to tell you to pick the damn thing up? Way that damn fool stuck his neck out backing that UN resolution supporting interven… what?