Rebirth 1973 - Chapter 46 Conclusion
As Louis has no choice, he can only comply with Henry request. It’s easy to make an identity for an entire tribe especially since the tribe is a legit local people. With US influence in Nepal, it’s nothing hard especially since Louis is the ambassador.
But Henry didn’t let Louis go out of the room, at least not until the call connected. Luckily there is a separate bathroom, so Henry let Louis enter there as he doesn’t want Louis to know what he going to talk with Senator John.
Since all of this already happened, he wants to make sure this not gonna leaked out. After all, he is only pretending here and his identity already recorded by the embassy.
After waiting for a while, the call finally connected with someone say, “Who is this? How did you know my phone number?”
“Hello Senator John, this is Henry. I meet an obstacle here as there’s no plane to take my people to Indonesia. So I was thinking, why not a plane directly instead? I wonder if you can help me contact Boeing ?”
There’s no response from Senator John for a while, Henry begins to anxious so he says, “Don’t forget the $10 Million, Senator.”
Senator John then replied, “What plane do you want to buy? You know it’s not easy especially if you need it for tomorrow.”
“I need Boeing 747-100, $39 Million for one. I can give you $45 Million to get it, I don’t care what means you to get it, I only want the result. And oh yeah, don’t trick me with some lousy goods, I want the new one.”
Senator John laugh and replied, “You act like you are my boss, kid. Well, I will guarantee the plane will arrive tomorrow afternoon complete with my acquaintance pilot.”
“One more thing, can you send a fax to the US embassy in Nepal? I just need you to print my name with a Senate seal on it, I need it immediately.”
“No problem, I will get it done right away.”
As the International Call can’t last long, Henry only says the most important thing. After 5 minutes, Henry hangs up the phone as he already says everything. He exhaled with relief as he feels everything was under his control.
But $45 Million is sure gonna hurt his wallet. Recently he already spending over $100 Million to get a various thing done. He injects $10 Million each to Microsoft, Apple, and Atari to set them on the track. Atari purchase has cost him $27.5 Million.
Just the company alone has cost him $57.5 Million, not mention others. The ranch he buys for $50 Million at Wyoming, and extra $5 Million for all the equipment that it needed and all miscellaneous.
William Manor has consumed over $25 Million to renovating and purchase the land around it. $10 Million for Senator John, $1 Million for various miscellaneous and finally $45 Million for Boeing 747-100.
The total is over $200 Million for all of that. Luckily the novel he writes can support the consumption, and it’s still increasing too. Even though his net worth already less than $20 Million from all the expenditure, he believes soon his income will increase in geometrical scales as Microsoft, Apple, and Atari growth.
Microsoft now developing a Graphical User Interface (GUI) with Microsoft BASIC as the foundation. Henry already pointed out what direction Microsoft will take in the future to Bill Gates. He believes with Bill Gates talent and ability, it will not take long for it to be realized.
Apple with the Apple-1 which already has the complete blueprint. He believes 2 weeks at latest it would be completed.
Atari Home PONG still in development, but Allan Alcorn as the designer guarantee it would be completed in 1 month.
By the principle of making money with money, Henry money that spent into the development will soon return by at least quadruple amount. After the three company product going into the market and reap the money, by then he can expand again.
After contemplating for a while, Henry walks toward the bathroom. He saw that Louis now is sitting on the toilet seat while daydreaming.
“Well, you can come out now.” Henry said while leaning against the door.
Then Louis gets up and walks bypassing Henry with a calm face. Henry staring at Louis as he knows this old man would do something crazy if cornered. While this old man may look calm now, Henry still put on guard just in case this old man go crazy.
Louis then sits back in his chair and act like normal. Henry just leaning in the bathroom door as he waiting for something. This situation continued until 10 minutes later someone knocks the office door.
Louis then stares at Henry who shut down his eyes. He hesitates for a while before saying, “Come in.”
The officer that guides Henry before come in while holding a piece of paper. The officer looks around and found the atmosphere of this room seem weird, but he doesn’t care as he has something urgent to say.
The officer then walks toward Louis and handed the piece of paper and whispered directly into Louis’ ear, “Sir, this is sent from the United States just a while ago.”
Louis takes the paper and saw it only the paper only inscribed with HENRY. There’s a US Senate seal too on the bottom of the paper. Louis glance at Henry who already opened his eyes who now staring at him and smile.
“Thank you for your warm hospitable Ambassador Louis. But I have something to do now, so I can only excuse myself.” Then Henry walks away, but just before he left the room he says, “And don’t forget our agreement, Ambassador Louis.”
Louis want to squeeze the paper, but as the officer still in the room, he holds it. The officer noticed something was wrong, but he doesn’t want to get involved by this so he tries to leave.
“Hey Martin, prepare my car. I want to go to the government office.” Louis stands up while fixing his slightly messy suit.
