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Tom looked bemused by this statement

“I can’t believe it was suicide,” said Townsend

“Why do you say that?” asked Tom

“It’s just not his style The da”

“Whatever it was, London’s leaking like a sieve,” said To’s endless flow of cash came fro to buy up his own shares, but also to pay off the unions in New York”

“The co about?”

“Apparently Ar discovered there was far an siphoning it off at a few million a time, until his chairnation”

Townsend picked up an internal phone and pressed three digits

“What are you doing?” asked Tom

“Shh,” said Townsend, placing a finger up to his lips When he heard a voice on the other end of the line, he asked, “Is that the accounts department?”

“Yes, sir,” said sonized the Australian accent “It’s Hank Turner, I’m the company’s deputy chief accountant”

“You’re exactly the man I need, Hank First, tell me, does Global have a separate pension fund account?”

“Yes, of course it does, sir”

“And howin that account at the present time?” he asked

He hung on and waited for the answer EB’s lift had reached the ninth floor on the way back up by the time the deputy chief accountant was able to infor, sir, that account is showing a balance of 723 million”