The Caveman
Copyright© 2016 by Colin Barrett
Chapter 53
I do not like this new client.
He is one such as I have known many times before, a man who always wishes to show he is stronger, better, more than other men. But ones like this show it not against equals but against those they believe are weaker or lower than themselves. Linda tells me the word is “bully,” and this man is a bully.
Also, he believes that because he has much money it does not only make him better than others, but he can do as he pleases and not have punishment such as other men would suffer. He is not sorry that the other man with whom he fights is dead, he only thinks it is unjust that he may be punished for the death.
Linda has told me often that it’s not needed to like a client; “even scumbags have rights,” is the way she says it. Irving says this as well, as do others in law firm with whom I have worked. And I agree; that a man is a bad man in one way does not mean he does a particular bad deed, or that even if he does there were not proper reasons for the deed or other “mitigating circumstances.”
Still, I am sorry that we must return from our trip, our honeymoon, to help a man such as this.
Hawaii is a place such as I’ve never seen, not even when I dream. There are great mountains almost beside great water, lush forests beside sandy beaches, places where there is rarely rain next to places where it rains almost always, it is as though the entire world is compressed into only these small islands. And I am with Linda to see all this, which is best of all.
I am more easy in airplane for our return flight. It helps that the flight is mostly in nighttime, so that there is no sense that we are so high. I sleep very comfortably for a long time as we fly, which is good since the same afternoon that we make our return Linda and I must go to the office to meet this client.
His name is Sam McDonald, and he spends most of our meeting boasting of his money and his strength in bar fight. With him is his wife, and she seems to care for him but I do not think he has so much feeling for her. I tell this to Irving and Linda when our meeting is finished.
“He says he goes to bar only short for alcohol,” I say. “But this is not true. He goes for that, but he goes also to be in company of those he prefers to his home. And I think he may go to find woman for sex as well.”
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