The vote was taken after the lawyers left.

It was five to nothing to remove him as chief executive and to suspend him from the board pending completion.

Arthur abstained.

He was advised to and he did.

So the man who took it was Hank Ostrander, and he is seventy-one, and he did it in a shirt with a frayed collar, and he had asked one question in three hours.

Part Twenty-Four: What Happens to the Company That Finds It