Chapter 195

• "That was when I moved into the bank building. All our business tenants had moved over into the Buckman's building so I had my pick of space. I converted an area for a kitchen and a bathroom but the rest is just open space. I had to shutdown the building's boiler to conserve energy costs. That's why I have trouble taking a hot shower. The entire building's hot water source is from an ordinary residential water heater."
• "So now you know why I'm living here in an empty oversized marble tiled cavern with inadequate hot water."
• "As far as the everyday struggle with the bank you have some idea of what I've been going through. From the first days that I took over, I've been scrambling to keep the bank afloat. I've had to resort to speculating in risky currency arbitrage and betting on minute to minute fluctuations in the market. Knowing all the while if anyone caught wind of the bank's exposed position they could cut us off at the knees."