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Another day, she thought again and strode into her office Roarke was at her desk, busily screening data

“What are you doing?” She all but leapt to him “That’s classified”

“Don’t pick nits, darling You were going too broad last night You’ll be days co all accounts under the nae transfers, and connections to other accounts—which is, of course, the trickier part if you’re dealing with someone who understands how to hide the coin”

“You can’t just sit down and start going through data accuation”

“Of course I can You need coffee” He looked up briefly “Then

you’ll feel more yourself and I’ll show you what I have”

“I feel exactly like myself” Which, she ady She stalked to the AutoChef in the kitchen, went for an oversizedof hot and black The rich and real caffeine Roarke could coh her system

“What have you got?” she demanded when she walked back in

“Palan, and she narrowed her eyes

“You didn’t think so yesterday”

“I said check for relatives, saested you try his mother’s maiden name Riley And here we have the account of one Pale account, ed Since there’s been some activity over the last six months, I would assume your man found a way to access a ’link or computer from prison”

“He shouldn’t have been near one How can you be sure?”

“He understands how money works, and just how fluid it can be You see here that six o he had a balance of just over 13 million For the past three years previous, all action was autoed with no input froins to make transfers Here’s one to an account under Peter Nolan, which, by the way, is his aunt’s husband’s name on his father’s side Overseas accounts, off-planet accounts, local New York accounts—different names, different IDs He’s had this money for some time and he waited, sat on it until he found the way to use it”

“When I took him down before, we froze his accounts, accounts under David Palmer We didn’t look deeper I didn’t think of it”

“Why should you have? You stopped him, you put him away He was meant to stay away”