Rudolph In Moneyland
March, 1970
Rudolph awoke exactly at a quarter to seven. He never set the alarm. There was no need to.The usual erection. Forget it. He lay quietly in bed for a minute or two. His mother was snoring in the next room. The curtains at the open window were blowing a little and it was cold in the room. A pale wintry light came through the curtains, making a long dark blur of the books on the shelves on the wall across from the bed.Then he remembered. This was not going to be an ordinary day. At closing the nigh...