the wind and the rain - 12. the train

by nick nelson

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his train was waiting for walter when he reached the safety of the platform. he quickly found an empty compartment and settled into it. he realized that in his haste to escape harold he had left his newspaper behind. how annoying! he would just have to open his battered brown briefcase and read some of the reports from his suffering underlings that he had not been able to peruse the night before. but as he was reaching into the briefcase the door to the compartment opened snd another person entered, one that walter thought he recognized. a gentleman of advanced middle age, with a round bushy white beard, and wearing a defiantly old fashioned tweed suit. he was none other, walter realized, than mr moses amenhotep, a lion of the financial world. mr amenhotep glared casually at walter. you seem at a bit of a loss, sir, he addressed walter. would you like to read my newspaper? i am quite finished with it. thank you, sir, that is very kind of you, water replied, and accepted the newspaper, which was the gazette, and not the times, which he had left behind in the kiosk. he did not indicate that he recognized mr amenhotep. what do you think of that, eh? mr amenhotep asked walter, apparently referring to the headline of the gazette. damned popinjay, upsetting the equilibrium men like myself have spent years establishing. the headline read - social butterfly adventurer foments rebellion in asia below was a photo of richardson robinson, taken when he was a freshman at h_________, and describing in suitably ironic terms his self proclaimed mission to rescue asia from europe and america, very strange, walter replied noncommitttaly to mr amenhotep, he did not mention that he , walter, was a partner in the law form that had represented the robinson family for over a century. next