Part Twenty-Five: Two Hundred and Six People

There were two hundred and six people on that payroll and I want to say what happened to them, because in the version of this story that people prefer, the villain falls and everyone else is fine.

Nineteen people lost their jobs.

Not because of anything they did.

Because a third of a credit line came out and two customers left and the legal bill was two million dollars, and that arithmetic has to land on somebody, and it landed in March, in one afternoon, in two facilities.

Arthur did it himself.