Kane and Abel/Sons of Fortune

Author:Jeffrey Archer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2011-06-14T16:00:00+00:00

A few days later the State Department announced that Poland had been granted most favored nation status in foreign trade with the United States and that the next American Ambassador to Warsaw would be John Moors Cabot.

CHAPTER FORTY

On a bitter February evening, William Kane sat back and reread Thaddeus Cohen’s report. Henry Osborne had released all the information he had needed to finish Abel Rosnovski and had taken his $25,000 and disappeared. Very much in character, thought William as he replaced the wellworn copy of the Rosnovski file back in his safe. The original had been sent to the Justice Department in Washington, D.C., some days before by Thaddeus Cohen.

When Abel Rosnovski had returned from Turkey and was subsequently arrested, William had waited for him to retaliate, expecting him to dump all his Interstate stock on the market immediately. This time, William was prepared. He had already warned his broker that Interstate might come onto the open market in large amounts with little warning. His instructions were clear. They were to be bought immediately so that the price would not drop. Again he was prepared to put up the money from his trust as a short-term measure, to avoid any unpleasantness at the bank. William had also circulated a memo among all the stockholders of Lester’s asking them not to sell any Interstate stock without consulting him.

As the weeks passed and Abel Rosnovski made no move, William began to believe that Thaddeus Cohen had been correct in assuming that nothing had been traceable back to him. Rosnovski must surely be placing the blame firmly on Henry Osborne’s shoulders.

Thaddeus Cohen was certain that with Osborne’s evidence, Abel Rosnovski would end up behind bars for a very long time, preventing him from ever finding it possible to invoke Article 7 and again be a threat to the bank or William Kane. William hoped that the verdict might also make Richard come to his senses and return home. Surely these latest revelations about that family could only make him embarrassed by the Rosnovski girl and realize that his father had been right all along.

William would have welcomed Richard back. There was now a gap on the board of Lester’s created by the retirement of Tony Simmons and the untimely death of Ted Leach. Richard would have to return to New York before William’s sixty-fifth birthday in ten years or it would be the first time in over a century that a Kane had not sat in a bank’s boardroom. Cohen had reported that Richard had made a series of brilliant takeover bids for shops that Florentyna needed, but surely the opportunity to become the next chairman of Lester’s would mean more to Richard than working with that Rosnovski girl.

Another factor that was bothering William was that he did not care much for the new breed of directors now working at the bank. Jake Thomas, the new vice chairman, was still the firm favorite to succeed William as chairman. He might have been educated

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