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I'm trying to decide where to begin," Barbara said. " In her mind she was trying to decide not where to begin, but if she would begin, or say it was all a mistake, excuse herself and leave. "Yes, it often is. But let me start you. You're a professional woman facing a crisis of some sort. " Barbara paused her restless wandering and looked hard at her. "No, I didn't look you up. Hardly time for that, was there? But you're guarding your reputation. You asked my receptionist for the charge in order to bring enough cash.
You can sell your share tomorrow, easily a million dollars. Hold it for six months, and that figure rises astronomically. " He was whispering again. "I have his keys to the office files, and to his home files. Mom will stay at the hospital for now, but if she finds out that I lifted his keys, she'll head for wherever that document is. The office, or the condo. And we have to get that paper before she gets to it. She knows where it is, and she'll get it, believe me. You can take the condo, and I'll hit the office files.
Elizabeth had been in the condo several times before, the last visit had been for dinner, when she had told the family that she was pregnant. Joe Kurtz had been delighted. She remembered that scene, as she looked about the luxurious suite, decorator-perfect and lifeless, like an illustration from a glitzy magazine. "Now, he'll settle down," Joe had said that day. " Fat chance, she said under her breath, following Terry to Joe's home office. There was a kidney-shaped desk with a black mirror-smooth surface, two file cabinets, black-leather-covered chairs and a tub with a palm tree.