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Another discarded plaque~ this one in French The openings were ashes without her

Abel was beginning to dread that he hter again To kill the loneliness, he slept with some very expensive and some rather cheap women None of them helped

William Kane’s son now possessed - the one person he truly loved France no longer held any excitement for him, and once he had finished his business there, Abel flew on to Bonn where he cootiations for the site on which he would build the first Baron in Gere by phone, but Florentyna had not been found, and there was so Henry Osborne

’He’s got hiain,’ said George

’I warned hi him out,’ said Abel

’He’s been no dan - w use to anyone since he lost his seat in Congress I suppose I’ll have to deal with the proble threats,’said George

’There’s nothing new about that I’ve never let them worry me in the past,’ said Abel ’Tell him whatever it is he wants, it will have to wait until my return’

’When do you expect to be back?’ asked George

`Three weeks, four at the ypt Hilton’s already started building there, so I’e, the experts tell me you’ll never be able to reach me once the plane has landed in the Middle East Those damned Arabs haven’t worked out how to find each other, let alone visitors fro as usual until you bear fro at sites for new hotels all over the Arab states His advisors were legion,Abel that they bad the real influence as a very close personal friend of the key minister, a distant cousin in fact

However, it always turned out to be the wrong minister or too distant a a cousin The only solid conclusion Abel reached, after twenty - three days in the dust, sand, and heat with soda but no whisky, was that if hisadvisors’ forecasts on the Middle East oil reserves were accurate, the Gulf States were going to need a lot of hotels in the long ter carefully if they were not to be left behind

Abel h his several princes, but he did not have the time to discover which of them had the real power to fix the officials He objected to bribery only when thehands At least in America, Henry Osborne had always knohich officials needed to be taken care of Abel set up a s his local representative in no doubt that the Baron Group was looking for sites throughout the Arab world, but not for princes or the cousins of ministers