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Abel reh several old pictures of Florentyna and took out a new one of his grandson, which he proffered to George
’Good - looking little boy’ said George
’Sure is,’ said Abel ’The spitting iive up, do you, Abel?’
’What do you think they call hie ’You know very hat his name is’
’I mean what do you think they actually call hie
’Find out,’ said Abel ’I care’
’How ae ’Have so the pram around Golden Gate Park? You left clear instructions that Florentynaan interest in her or the Kane boy’
’nat reminds me, I still have a little matter to settle with his father,’ said Abel
’What are you going to do about the Lester shares?’ asked George ’Because Peter Parfitt has been showinghis two per cent lately, and I wouldn’t trust Henry with the negotiations With those torking on the sale, everybody will be in on the deal except you’
’I’ Much as I hate Kane, I don’t want any trouble with him until we know if Kennedy has won the election So I’ the whole situation dormant for the moment If Kennedy fails, I’ll buy Parfitt’s two per cent and go ahead with the plan that we’ve already discussed And don’t worry your - self about Henry; I’ve already taken hi that myself’
’I do worry, Abel I know he’s in debt again to half the booko, and I wouldn’t be surprised if he arrived in New York on the scrounge anyhere I made the situation very clear last tiet another di, he’ll only lose his seat on the board and with it his only source of incoe Tees aay he took it on hio to Kane direct for the e Henry is the one man alive who hates Kane even more than I do, and not without reason’
’How can you be so sure of that?’
’William KanesWilliaed only sixteen, threw him out of hisown home’
’Good God, how did you come across that piece of infor I don’t know about William Kane’ said Abel ’Or Henry for that- from the fact that we started life on the sa theres nothing he doeset know about , but you need have no fear of Henry turning stool pigeon He’d die before he had to adn - At his real name was Vittorio Tosna and he once served a jail sentence!
~Good God - does Henry realise you know all this?’
’No, he doesn’t I’ve kept it to e, that if you think a ht threaten you at some time then you should keep a little more up your sleeve than your arested swindling Great Western Casualty while he was still actually working for theh I’d be the first to admit he’s been very useful toto cause me any trouble in the future, because without his director’s salary, he becoet Henry and let’s be a little more positive What’s the latest date for the coeles Baron?’
’Middle of Septee
’Perfect That will be six weeks before the election When Kennedy opens that hotel, the neill hit every front page in Amerim’
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When William returned to New York, after a bankers’ conference in Washington, he found athat he contact Thaddeus Cohen immediately He hadn’t spoken to Cohen for a considerable time, as Abel Rosnovski had caused no direct trouble since the abortive telephone conversation on the eve of Richard and Florentyna’s e, nearly three years before The successive quarterly reports hadto buy or sell any of the bank’s shares Nevertheless, Wilham called Thaddeus Cohen immediately and somewhat apprehensively The lawyer told William that he had stue over the phone William asked him to come over to the bank as soon as it was convenient