"And half of Aunt Pitty's house on...
"And half of Aunt Pitty's house on Peachtree
Street," she said distinctly
"Didn't he leave me that, too?"
"My God, Scarlett, don't tell me you want to move in thereBut I want Ashley out of thereIndia and Aunt Pitty
are going to sympathize him into his graveHe can go back to his own
houseI'll find him a housekeeper Henry Hamilton looked at her
with expressionless probing eyes"Are you sure that's why you want
him back in his own house, because he's suffering from too much
sympathy?" Scarlett bridled"God's nightgown, Uncle Henry!" she
said"Are you turning into a scandal monger in your old age?"
"Don't show your claws to me, young ladySettle back in that louis vuitton duffle bag chair
and listen to some hard truthsYou've got maybe the best business
head I ever met, but otherwise you're about as dimwitted as the
village
idiot Scarlett scowled, but she did as she was told"Now, about
Ashley's house," said the old lawyer slowly, "it's already been sold
I drew up the papers yesterday He held up his hand to stop Scarlett
before she could speak"I advised him to move into Pitty's and sell
itNot because of the pain of associations and memories in the house,
and not because I was concerned about who was going to take care of
him
and the boy, although both are valid considerationsI advised him to
move because he needed the money from the fake hermes bags sale to keep his lumber
business from going under
"What do you mean? Ashley doesn't know tootle about making
money, but
he can't possibly go underBuilders always need lumber
"If they're buildingJust you get down off your high horse for a
minute and listen, ScarlettI know you're not interested in anything
that happens in the world unless it concerns you, but there was a big
financial scandal in New York a couple or three weeks agoA
speculator named Jay Cooke miscalculated, and he crashedHe took
his railroad down with him, an outfit called the Northern PacificHe
took a bunch of other speculators with him, too, fellows who were in
on
his railroad deal and discount tiffany's necklace some of his other dealsWhen they went with
him,
they took down a lot of other deals they were in on, outside of
Cooke'sThen the fellows who were in on their deals went down,
tumbling still more deals and more fellowsJust like a house of
cardsIn New York they're calling it 'the Panic It's alread,y
spreadingI expect it'll run through the whole country before it 5
done
Scarlett felt a stab of terror"What about my store?" she cried
"And my money? Are the banks safe?"
"The one you bank in isI've got my money there, too, so I made
sure
Fact is, Atlanta's not likely to get hurt muchWe're not big enough
yet for any big deals, and it's the big ones that are tiffany heart tag toggle necklace crumblingBut
business is at a standstill everywherePeople are afraid to invest in
anything
That means building, tooAnd if nobody's building, nobody needs
lumber"So Ashley won't be making any money
from
the sawmillsBut if nobody's investing, why did
his house sell so fast? Seems to me, if there's a panic, real estate
prices should be the first thing to fallYou're a smart one, ScarlettThat's why I told Ashley to
sell while he couldAtlanta hasn't felt the Panic yet, but it'll get
here soonWe've been booming for the past eight years-hell, there
are
more than twenty thousand people living here now-but you can't boom
without bucks He laughed mightily at his own rolex 18k watches wI