$50 bill asked for a private booth where they could have some privacy and they were shown to the rear of the bar where they all sat down and ordered drinks. The three producers made small talk with Rich, almost completely ignoring Joseph. They were asking him about his schooling and his father. The waiter came with the drinks and Carl asked if anyone would like something to eat and getting no response he ordered some chips, pretzels and peanuts anyway. Around the second round of drinks, one of the producers turned to Rich and said, “now for the real purpose for our wanting to talk to you Rich. As of yesterday, the word on the 'Street' is that your father is about to become the financial advisor, if not to the entire Arab world, at least to that section of it that has all of the money. It is also said that Worthington's may soon become one of the biggest bankers in the world. We would like to meet with him and discuss the possibilities of our getting in on the ground floor, so to speak. Do you think you could arrange for us to meet with the man that has convinced the Arabs to invest all that money?”

“Gentlemen, while I am on very good terms with my family, I doubt that my father would take anything I might say about investments and investors seriously. I have not had anything to do with the business since the time my father took me into his office on one of those 'Father/Son Days' and I accidentally pushed the wrong computer key and caused him to loose a hundred thousand dollars.”

“But surely you could at least ask you father to meet with the three of us.” Carl said taking out one of his business cards and passing it over to Rich. The other men did the same thing. “We would just like the opportunity to meet the man responsible for this fantastic business coup.”

“But, gentlemen, you already have met him. He is sitting right here with us.” Rich said. “Sgt. Joseph Benson is the one that was able to get this thing rolling.”

All eyes turned to Joseph as he smiled back at them… “Just a case of being the right guy in the right place and at the right time.” Joseph said, blushing.

“Don't be so modest.” Rich said beaming proudly. “Gentlemen I give you the future partner of Worthington & Benson, when he gets out of the army and finishes his education.”

“Well do tell us how did you accomplish this?” Asked all of the men talking at once.

“It's a rather long story, but I will give you the shortened version.” Joseph said. “The army discovered my unusual ability to pick up languages rather quickly. They placed me in a new program, and were training me to speak Arabic. One day, while we were on leave a friend of mine and myself wandered into the Paterson Mosque. While there I met and became involved with the head of the Arab community… He asked me to his home and for some reason he took a liking to me and offered his daughter to me in marriage…” Seeing that he had the three of them sitting on the edges of their chairs, he told them that the rest of the story was unimportant. “Once the Sheikh found out that I was friendly with Rich and his father, he insisted that a meeting be arranged