Grantville Gazette Volume XV by Eric Flint

Author:Eric Flint [Flint, Eric]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-03-25T22:00:00+00:00

Grantville U-haul and Salvage Facilities, early fall 1632

Dalton Higgins picked up a book and a calculator that had seen better days and started adding up some numbers. "No way we can make full value of this truck in two weeks, Duncan. Would a quarter now and the rest in quarterly payments be fair?"

"That will have to do. I need to buy some new equipment and Three M stock, soon. Before they vote my personal projects off the table and reassign the labs and lab time while I try to recover my insulin project.

"Conrad's men got the runaway alchemist back for me pretty quick, but not before bandits stole or broke the gear. Figure it's going to cost me either way. I rather be safe and have the cash and stock to back my requests."

"Would letting you vote my shares in proxy help you, Duncan?" Dalton asked. "My daughter suggested I invest in that company and I might have—" He coughed. "—a few shares to vote."

"You'd do that for me, Dalton?"

"For that truck and Linda's ATV, and paid back over time? Yeah, I would."

"You'd be saving my life, Dalton. Literally."

"It can't be that bad yet, Duncan. I heard you whupped Mr. Chaffin pretty good down at Tip's recently, for how he's treating Noreen."

Duncan half grinned and turned away to hide his blush. He was really too old to be stuffing men into trash cans anymore, but it sure had felt good to do it. He turned back, serious once more. "Doc McDonnell came up with a blood test for me after we started to get some insulin made. Mostly to monitor how it was affecting me. I'm sort of a living guinea pig, but I ain't got no choice, you know." Duncan unhooked the keys for his beloved four by four truck and his lost wife's ATV and handed them over. "The proxy votes and the papers saying I can vote them as I see fit, soonest. The rest when you can afford it. Richard Nelson, my lawyer, will handle things while I'm gone.

"By the way, gents . . . when's the last wedding you went to?"

"Why?" Harrison asked.

"I found a keeper, and I don't want to let her get away. I'll let you know 'bout that after I get back from Hamburg again. Seems I have some unfinished business there." Duncan actually smiled for the first time that day. It felt good. "Speaking of that. Think I could borrow one of your newer luxury-ride carriage prototypes?" It'd make traveling the roads bearable and he wanted to impress the lady. He was sure Conrad would know someone who knew how to drive a carriage properly.

It was good to have friends.

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