Summary
A carnival-bright mirage of industrial salvation flickers across the screen in See My Lawyer: two wide-eyed speculators, Gardner and Noble, drift into the orbit of Trueman, a maestro of mechanical prestidigitation whose rubber-making contraption whirs with the hollow promise of endless wealth. Circulars, glossy as stained-glass, seduce board-room titans; a trust congeals overnight, gorging on futures spun from vapor. When Noble peels back the plated shell and finds only smoke, conscience clatters against appetite; he balks at the demo, the lawyer’s nostrils twitch, postal hounds bay, and suddenly the boardroom becomes Bedlam—Gardner drooling, eyes rolled back like a broken slot machine. While the mad act curdles, Trueman pockets a cool million for a formula that, in the final cosmic jest, births not rubber but an immortal paving block, a slab no pickax can scar, a monument to gullibility set in the asphalt of American appetite.
Synopsis
Robert Gardner and Billy Noble become interested in a machine capable--according to the inventor, Trueman--of producing artificial rubber. A trust is formed, circulars are sent out, and a demonstration is requested. When Billy discovers that the invention is fraudulent and refuses to demonstrate it, the trust lawyer becomes suspicious and notifies postal authorities. Robert feigns insanity, and Trueman accepts an offer of $1 million for the formula, which experts later discover produces an indestructible paving block.
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