I have been
overwhelmed with all of this Foundation stuff so I went down to Fay's
office this morning and asked her how she was doing with it? Kay, I'm
with you one thousand percent on all of it. I love doing it. I have done
better with you than I ever have before you, and my real-estate business
is doing better without me being there, my people are working harder
without me than ever before. You have spare office space, would you like
to hire more help? I have thought about it and I think I will. You can
charge everything to the foundation and also I would like to have all
the rental property appraised to true value in this market. We may want
to sell some or all of it. We need to know cost of maintenance compared
to profit and to see what needs to go and what we need to keep. I
understand, You will have profit and loss charts on everything in about
two weeks. I will have them on your website when they are ready. Maybe
we need to know what the bare property is worth without the buildings.
Do you want to know what the bare land is worth for the deeds we
have? No not yet, we may be selling those separate.
Fay I am
thinking of flying to New York for a few days and coming back Thursday
or Friday. I have no problem with that. Jenny can do the paper work at
her desk there and fax it all to you here and You can file it all and
get off the ground with the Foundation. Do you Have the Key to Mr.
Shields house? I want to go and look around. It is our house now. Can I
come along? Sure...Where is Joe. She called him. We need you Babe. We
walked to the car and he arrived on the elevator. Hello Joe, we're
going to the Shields residence. Joe unlocked the door and we walked in.
Mr. Shields was sitting at the table, Laying across the a note pad. I
pulled it out. There were several pages of instructions for me.
Things he wanted me to know and do for him . I tore off the pages and
handed them to Fay. Joe called the police and we started looking around.
I looked through the drawers in the dressers and night stands in the two
bedrooms. They were full of medicines and nine millimeter hand gun in a
holster. I handed it to Joe. Do whatever you want with this. He walked
to the car and put it under the seat, and came back in. There were six
rifles in the closet and I told Joe to put them in the trunk, and he
did. everything in the house was about the same when his wife and
children died nothing looked newer than that. She had a set of sterling
flat ware I wanted And Joe took care of it for me. Joe is there anything
you want here? It's an old house full of old things. How about you Fay.
Ditto to Joe Yes your both right. Joe When we Leave call an antique
store that buys things and see if you can sell this stuff and keep what
you can get.. Joe tossed the mattresses and found several hundred
dollars that were long forgotten maybe by his son or daughter.
Joe straitened
every thing up and Fay was looking through the book case. Joe some of
the school books are from the eighteen hundreds and most if these early
novels are first editions. There are several Jack London novels that
were signed To my very dear friend, Donald Shields senior. from Jack
London. He knew Jack London. Who is Jack London? Joe said. Fay and I
looked at each other You need to read those books. Who is he? Do you
remember the movie "Call of the Wild"? He wrote adventure books and many
are movies now. He founded The San Francisco Yacht club and traveled
around the world several times. He was a very famous author. Some of the
best real adventure books of all time. Ok, Ok I will take them. He put
them in the car trunk and finally the coroner arrived with a detective
and an ambulance
The detective
Lewis asked us how we knew him. Fay told him she has known him for years
and he knew he was dying and he had transferred his estate to Miss
Brown. They checked his body over and put it on a travel gurney and took
it to the ambulance and checked it again. He took all of our ID
information and asked, Do you know his next of kin? He has none, I was
his most trusted friend, I said. Who will pay for his internment? I
will, I will pay everything. That's good we will be calling you. Is that
the Building they are calling the Tokyo Towers. Yes we have four floors
of Japanese residents. They are designing electric cars. Well that's a
good thing. He left before the ambulance. Can I take those books Kay?
Sure you can, take anything you want. There are some boxes in the back.
Joe and Fay cleaned out the book case and put them in the Limo to take
to her place. We locked up and left.
We arrived home
and unloaded everything. Fay gave me the notes that were under Mr.
Shields body. We rounded up the crew and went to dinner at the hotel. We
told every one that Mr. Shields had died. I told everyone that I was
going to New York for a few days as soon as everyone else was ready,
Cheering was heard out at the pool. We talked about Shields for awhile
and coming back to San Diego in a few days. I want to know something
Jenny. Are things fair for all the employees in New York? I would like
to give my part to the employees. Jenny said ,that's sounds good to me
too. I can move our corporation to San Diego and not be invested in
New York. Are you girls good with that? They cheered louder than ever. I
will tell everyone when we arrive tomorrow. Does everyone want to go
tomorrow? Yes was the word. Fay will you take care of it. Your tickets
will be delivered by noon.......KB