Harbor Lights by Theodore Weesner

Author:Theodore Weesner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Astor + Blue Editions
Published: 2015-12-08T16:00:00+00:00

Virgil

He returned the Thomaston file to the Maine Authentic drawer and decided to treat himself to a brandy, though it was hardly ten a.m. Not that the hour mattered. Virgil liked inventing his own rules, however quietly he might do so. As he always thought, stealth has its advantages. It might not be a strategy they teach in business school (just as well, else it wouldn’t be stealth), but alas, let the race be to those who accumulate the marbles while others pay fees and rates.

Things were falling into place and Virgil was feeling ever more bold this morning. There was the Warren business to suffer through, but he wouldn’t be letting it get under his skin and it would pass. One more call—just to be certain—then he’d leave to be with Beatrice when the call came from the bank. But first, the brandy (and another, if he felt like it) because he was certain the bank would carry the note. How could they not? Everyone would benefit, and the strings were neatly tied. York National would make money, he and Beatrice would make money, and the note would be paid off in five years—while the contract with the state (to be sure) was renewable. A no-lose deal all the way around. He had stitched it together himself just before leaving office, and the key innovation was that note and contract would be held by Beatrice. She would be entirely on her own and would fly ever higher. Could anyone have had a more successful apprentice, or been more fulfilled as a mentor? Besides all else she was to him, Beatrice was like a fond offspring being handed the reins of a family enterprise. Virgil admired legendary families that built empires lasting generations, and only wished, here in his own senior years, that their names were the same. Had fate been on their side, he and Beatrice would be priming children of their own to assume roles in such a family. Imagine the lineage they might have produced! That it wasn’t so was one of his deepest disappointments.

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