#106455 - We held our nerve and stopped a run on the bank and then we let them the folk down gently over a few months, luckily many had invested in share accounts but far too many were in ordinary accounts which Silas had no business using for speculation, but we were desperate for cash foreclosed a hell of a lot of loans when folk struggled with repayments, guys Silas knew from when he was a kid. She came down main street in that brand new Studebaker of theirs, the 1929 model straight eight one hundred horsepower President model, gee did I feel small, how in the hell could I look her right in the face as I walked down that boarded sidewalk past the chain gang filing in the holes in the dirt street. It never mattered I was top of my class at school, as soon as I got my school certificate pa took me for a job at Grays, old Silas Gray he interviewed me, What's the future son? he asked.