DIGGING OWN GRAVE/C7 Straight on the line
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C7 Straight on the line

In a brief moment, Dr. Richard started to imagine his future along the line of a certain experience he had in the past, something that happened to him over the years, say, ten years to be precise.

He had long forgotten the whole incident somehow and did not know why it was now that the same odd experience should so uncannily come close to his mind again.

This incident was all about one of his frequent visits to a man called a spiritual father, in down town Baltimore.

He used to consult the man for spiritual salvation of his soul whenever he found himself in a difficult situation.

Those who patronized him believe that God had favoured him with power to see things from his inner mind. Dr. Richard had since stopped going to consult him and had not got another spiritual father after that.

From the way that things were going for him on that day, he started to reason that the spiritual father might have been right in his prophecy.

The spiritual father had prophesized to him that God had shown him that him, Dr Richard would be a very rich man, so rich that his wealth would be enough to make him the richest man in Baltimore.

Then, Dr. Richard did not believe that kind of prophecy. ln fact, he laughed off the spiritual father's prophecy that day as baseless because he did not see how the prophecy could work.

He knew the size of his income as a medical practitioner in government service which could only make him comfortable for all it would be, much less a millionaire even if he had to earn double of his salary without spending a dime of it for fifteen years. And indeed he did not know anyone who had worked for a years.

In fact, this prophecy was the main cause of his decision to stop patronizing the spiritualist and rubbished his calls.

He just took the spiritual father's saying as mere excitement provoked in the man after he had given the man for five hundred dollars.

All that happened many years ago and Dr. Richard had forgotten them except now that he was about to come in possession of millions of dollars.

Dr. Richard had no shadow of doubt that sixteen million five hundred thousand dollars could make him a millionaire but not the richest man in Baltimore.

He had heard of the overwhelming assets of those people considered as the richest in Baltimore. So Sixteen million, five hundred thousand dollars was just like of coffee in a mega huge mug when compared with the assets of those people.

On the other hand, Dr. Richard believe that those richest people started from somewhere and didn't just acquire their multi millions overnight. Sixteen million five hundred thousand dollars was enough to make a good starting point for a would be richest man in Baltimore.

The money could multiply itself several times within a year if properly invested and extravagance cum its twin brother profligacy carefully edged out of the way.

He counted himself as a slow spender but not stingy and would always ensure that every hard earned dollar of his going out of his pocket gets a good return for him.

He remembered that to continue to live with a sense of frugality and austerity was absolutely important for the money to grow and multiply.

Oh yes, Dr. Richard remembered now as a certain fillip touched his mind. That was a good one indeed, he assured himself. He would not hesitate to invest the money and he knew exactly where to channel the investment.

The Financial Standard Newspaper could also guide him in discovering the most lucrative sector of the economy to invest even if he did not know.

In the end, Dr. Richard decided to invest in the banking and Oil sectors like Chevron and Mobil. He had remembered that these two sectors had been on the lead of other sectors since five years, with their stock ever remaining on the increase.

The latest Financial Standard's report on movement of stock at the Stock Exchange Market said a whole host of things regarding investment.

Dr. Richard vividly recalled having read in the report that the weekly appreciation of stock in the Bank and Oil and Gas Sectors had consistently maintained Ten percent.

What a milestone! He thought of investing all the money in the sectors to earn ten percent of his investment weekly, which he calculated to be one hundred and sixty five thousand dollars.

He did the multiplication and got eight million four hundred and eighty thousand dollars. He again added this amount to his investment for a possible income of thirty seven million, nine hundred and fifty nine thousand six hundred dollars at the end of the second year.

He continued doing this tedious calculation up to a period of twenty years and certainly believed that it was just about possible that he would become the richest man in Baltimore before attaining firty five to sixty years. He was only thirty five years now and had got another thirty five to attain three score and ten.

However, Dr. Richard warned himself to be careful how he made his speculation since he had not discussed with God to know how long he had got to live more on Earth or if the very sectors selected by him to invest would continue to sustain the same tempo of growth for long.

The minutes later Francis called.

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