his regards. He calls at least twice a week to see how I'm doing and to ask when we are going to go out to celebrate your graduation. Any suggestions?"

"Not a one. Maybe next weekend sometime, let's say late Saturday after the show or Sunday afternoon. I will leave it up to you. You call him and set a date and I'll make it." Joseph said as the two of them left the theater and went to the parking lot. "School starts the week after next so I will be busy getting my lectures set and meeting students after that."

"I'll call him. Maybe I can take off a Saturday night. My understudy has been praying that I would get sick or something." Rich laughed as they got into the car.
The trip out to the Island was faster than usual and they made it in record time. Richard and Sarah were waiting for them and they all sat in the library and had a light supper and talked. Joseph and Richard went over the investments that Richard senior would suggest and Joseph filled him in on how the word was spreading through the Arab community. "When we were in the Mosque today, all kinds of people kept coming over to both Fazzi and me insisting that they be included in the Club."

"Yes I know the word is out in more than one way." Richard said. "It appears to be the hottest thing on Wall Street. Everyone wants a bite of the action. We have been getting calls from just about every brokerage house looking to get in on the ground floor. Someone started the rumor that we are going to become, if not the official then the unofficial, bankers for the entire Arab world. They are saying that from now on any Arab/American who doesn't participate in the "Fund" is a traitor to his people and that in the future all Arab capitol one way or the other will pass through Worthington's."

"I hope you are doing nothing to stop those rumors." Joseph said.

"I even added to them. I let it be know that, in time, we hope to establish a corporative enterprise that would rival the economies of some nations and perhaps even surpass the Swiss bankers. Nothing like a little free advertising to get things rolling." Richard said, "I'm having our lawyers set up the paperwork and I checked it out with the Securities and Exchange Commission and a few friends in Washington. In fact when I spoke with Fazzi earlier this evening and told him of the plans, he was as happy as could be that things are working out this way. He had only one problem and a stipulation with it."

"And what was that?" Joseph asked. "I think he would be delighted with how things are going."

"Oh he is. Only to use his own words, he like most Arabs, is distrustful of Americans and he would like to have one of 'his' people on the inside of Worthington's to look after his interests. When I asked him whom he wanted-he put forth your name. He says that he knew I would have no objection to you and that since he and his people trust you, they would all feel secure with you as their agent."

"My God! Am I going crazy here? Me? Why me?"

"When I asked him that, he said that he knew that I might not accept any