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whether we could hold the news until after the developers confer￾ence. He figures I want to stall. He’s trying to force our hands.”

“We told him we’d put it out now.”

“Maybe he wants to make sure. Maybe he’s trying to send us

a message.”

“I don’t know.”

“Lawyers are the worst leakers in the world. Look at any

merger talks that get leaked, it’s always the lawyers.”

“There’s at least two dozen people who know there was a

meeting,” Paul says. He’s got a yellow legal pad and is making

a list. “Figure everyone on the board, plus whoever keeps their

schedules for them. Plus all the chauffeurs and pilots and travel

agents. Sampson and his three guys, plus their admins and assis￾tants. The people in my office. The people in your office. Anyone

in PR who’s been brought in to work on the release.”

“We could pull the phone logs,” Ross says. “And search the

email system. Steve?”

I don’t answer. I’m looking out the window, out over the

rooftops of Cupertino, toward Homestead High, where I went to

school, and, past that, the neighborhood in Los Altos where I

grew up. I’m thinking about the day when we first moved the

company out of my parents’ house and into a real office building

on Stevens Creek Boulevard. I was twenty-two years old. Our de￾livery system was a ten-year-old Plymouth station wagon. Our

biggest concern was keeping the car running. I miss those days.

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