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“Don’t worry about it, Vic,” said Seb, trying to reassure hiot a few more miles left on the clock”

However, at Seb’s weeklywith the chairman, Mr Kaufman did ask, on three separate occasions, the na on one particular land developh Seb knew he’d done business with him on at least two occasions in the past

Seb had spent soat another bank just a few streets away that it hadn’t crossed his ranted He tried not to think about the worst-case scenario: the olda takeover bid for Kaufnation letter to the new joint chairman of the two banks

He even considered canceling his trip to the States, but he knew that if he didn’t leave by the last tide on Friday evening, he would never have the courage to go through with it

Seb thoroughly enjoyed his father’s coe to New York, not least because, unlike hisendless questions Seb didn’t want to answer

They always ate together in the evening, and so the day, his father would lock hin on his door He spent hour upon hour going over the final draft of his latestwithin an hour of the ship docking

So when Seb was taking a brisk walk around the upper deck onein a deck chair, reading his favorite author

“Does that mean you’ve finished the book?” he asked as he sat down in the deck chair next to him

“It does,” said Harry, putting doare of Pity “Now all I have to do is deliver the manuscript to Harold and wait for his opinion”

“Do you want mine?”

“On my book? No, but on another book, yes”

“What book are we talking about?”

“Uncle Joe,” said Harry “Harold has offered Mrs Babakov a hundred-thousand-dollar advance for the world rights, against a fifteen-percent royalty, and I’m not sure what to advise her”

“But is there a chance of anyone ever finding a copy of the book?”

“I used to think there was almost none, but Harold told me that Mrs Babakov knohere a copy can be found The only problem is, it’s in the Soviet Union”