The Antine Bay Magenta

August, 1968

"My God, could it matter less?" Brubaker said. "One piece out of five?""It matters," Charles Nicholson said. "It matters to me. If it didn't, I'd let you have it."A cold wind ran down the valley. It lifted the ash on the hearth. The logs flared. Twenty feet over them, the foot-square beams worked, creaking."Try some port, Charles," Allen Brubaker said. "It's uncivilized, Scotch after dinner.""When did I testify I was civilized?&quo...