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She adored William from that moment on

William adored Matthew’s father the moment - they met; he reed Charles Lester to let hireat bank of which he was chairht carefully about the request No child had been allowed to enter the orderly precincts of Broad Street before, not even his own son He compromised, as bankers often do, and showed the boy around the Wall Street building on a Sunday afternoon

William was fascinated to see the different offices, the vaults, the foreign exchange dealing room, the board room and the chairman’s office

Compared with Kane and Cabot, the Lester bank was consider - ably more extensive, and William knew from his own small personal investeneral report, that they had a far larger capital base than Kane and Cabot William was silent, pensive, as they were driven home in the car

’Well, William, did you enjoy your visit to enially

’Oh, yes, sir,’ replied William ’I certainly did enjoy it’ William paused for a moment and then added, ’I intend to be chairman of your bank one day, Mr Lester’

Charles Lester laughed, and dined out on the story of how young William Kane had reacted to Lester and Co, which in turn h too

Only William had not meant the remark as a joke

Anne was shocked when Henry came back to her for more money

’It’s as safe as a house,’ he assured her ’Ask Alan Lloyd As chairatan of the bank he can only have your best interests at heart: 93ut two hundred and fifty thousandF Anne queried

’A superb opportunity, my dear Look upon it as an investment that will be worth double that aed row, Anne gave in once again and life returned to the same smooth routine When she checked her investment portfolio with the bank, Anne found she was down to one hundred and forty thousand dollars, but Henry see all the right deals She considered discussing the whole problem with Alan Lloyd at Kane and Cabot, but in the end dis distrust in the husband whom she wished the world to respect, and surely Henry would not have estion at all had he not been sure that the loan would haveDoctor MacKenzie again to find out if there was any hope of her having another baby, but he still advised against the idea With the high blood pressure that had caused her earlier e, Andrew MacKenzie did not consider thirty - five a good age for Anne to start thinking about being a randreed wholeheartedly with the views of the good doctor Neither of them cared for Henry very ht of an Osborne offspring one Anne began to resign herself to the fact that Williary about what he described as her betrayal, and told Anne that if Richard were still alive, she would have tried again How different the two ht, and couldn’t account for why she had loved the that his business projects would work out well and keep hi very late at the office

It was on a Monday in October, the weekend after they had celebrated their second wedding anniversary, that Anne started receiving the letters fro her that Henry could be seen escorting other women around Boston, and one lady in particular whoin with Anne burned the letters ih they worried her, she never discussed the that each letter would be the last She couldn’t ev= sue to raise the matter with Henry when he asked her for the last hundred and fifty thousand dollars

’I a to lose the whole deal if I don’t have that ht now, Anne’

’But it’s all I have, Henry If I give you that a’

’This house alone e it tos to William’

’Williaets in the way of my success,’ shouted Henry as he storht, contrite, and told her he would rather she kept her money and that he went under, for at least they would still have each other Anne was coned a cheque for one hundred and fifty thousand dollars the next et that it would leave her penniless until Henry pulled off the deal he was pursuing She couldn’t help wondering if it was more than a coincidence that Henry had asked for the exact amount that remained of her inheritance