“I know you have sixty thousand shares. You have had it a long time, because when you originally bought your Gray Stove——”
But he didn’t let me finish. He said, “But I bought a lot more. Some of it cost me as high as 40! And I’ve got it yet!”
He was glaring at me so hostilely that I said, “I didn’t tell you to buy it.”
“You didn’t what?”
“I didn’t tell you to load up with it.”
“I didn’t say you did. But you were going to put it up——”
“Why was I?” I interrupted. He looked at me, unable to speak for anger. When he found his voice again, he said, “You were going to put it up. You had the money to buy it.”
“Yes. But I didn’t buy a share,” I told him.
That was the last straw.
“You didn’t buy a share, and you had over four millions in cash to buy with? You didn’t buy any?”