Dick Stone found himself wishing it was a real fire, not one of nature’s electrical stunts. Beside him, Amalie Borne read Elle, the French fashion magazine, relentlessly tearing out page after page of dresses she intended to buy in Paris. It was insane, his doomed irresistible love for this woman. By now he had embezzled over three hundred thousand dollars from Buchanan Aircraft to buy her dresses and diamond necklaces and gold bracelets. The withdrawals were carried on the books as extraordinary overseas expenses, part of the millions handed over to the Prince and other agents. Buchanan’s auditors had long since accepted these expenses as perfectly legal under American law. There was no immediate danger of being caught. For someone with Dick Stone’s conscience, punishment was almost superfluous. He was his own accuser, judge, and victim. He seldom slept more than four hours a night. He rarely looked at another woman. His airline and aircraft friends at the Villa Hermosa called him the hermit.
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