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ound a suspicious account, you would remember, wouldn’t you?”

“I don’t know It wasn’t my job to look for them I just set up the accounts and paid the vendors Darrell Cooper was supposed to keep an eye out for any problems”

“What problems in particular?”

Marzetti shrugged “Excessive costs, lack of information on who ordered fro”

“So your job was confined to paying the bills?”

He nodded so vigorously I thought he’d get whiplash “Right You ht want to ask Cooper about this suspicious account”

He turned toward the house “But so in the system before you left,” I said

His eyes flashed anger “Who told you that? Whoever did is a liar”

“Hoould you know? You said you couldn’t remember”

He stopped short, wearing a deer-in-the-headlights expression “Youyou’re trying to trick me Put words in my mouth”

“No I just want to verify that there was an account for ITN Consultants in the syste”

“Look, just leaveabout any fake vendor,” he snarled

“I didn’t say it was a fake vendor” I enunciated each ith care “I said it was a suspicious account Nohy don’t you tell me what you know about this?”

Marzetti’s eyes darted around “Look,” he said “I don’t remember an account—suspicious or phony or whatever you want to call it—and I don’t know anything about this ITC or whatever they’re called And as for Koz your time and mine”

He did an about-face and stomped toward Marzetti Manor