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ove Adrian Sloane once and for all But I can’t hope to pull it off without your help”

“You can’t win theton reminded us after Waterloo, it’s only the final battle that really matters”

“And who’s playing Napoleon on this particular battlefield?”

“None other than Emma Clifton”

“And ill my role be?” asked Fisher

“I need you to find out what really happened on the first night of the Buckinghae because clearly the Ho ha her husband that if the truth ever got out, Eo bankrupt Nothing would suit me better because that would leave our precious chairman with no choice but to settle the action and pay my costs”

Fisher remained silent for some time, before he said, “There are a couple of directors on the board who’ve recently had a run-in with Mrs Clifton, and one of them has a tendency to drink a little tooto offer hin?”

“A place on the board of Farthings Bank”

“That would swing it, but what makes you think you can pull it off?”

“The chairman, Adrian Sloane, has every reason to loathe Sebastian Clifton, and will do anything to bring him down”

“How do you know that?”

“It’s a what you can pick up at dinner parties, especially when your host thinks wooes on in the City”

GILES BARRINGTON

1970

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