I’ve remained undecided if the last page hurts the story or helps it, and I’ve cut the ending many times. Here it is uncut.When Conroy saw the message in his INBOX, he smiled.URGENT REPLY NEEDED!!!Allow me sir to introduce myself. My name is Dr. William Reingold, executor to the estate of Phillip Percy Jefferson III, former CEO of…According to the email, Dr. Reingold had 17 million dollars that he was required to distribute to Jefferson’s heirs, and a detailed genealogy search had turned up Conroy.Conroy considered his luck. Just last week, a diplomat from Nigeria had emailed him requesting assistance to help distribute 42 million dollars in charity funds, and a month prior he was contacted by an auditor general from Venezuela with 24 million in a secret arms account and a lawyer from India trying to locate the relatives of a billionaire who died in a tragic plane crash. He’d also recently become a finalist in the Acculotto International lottery in Madrid, which wanted to give him a share of a 30 million euro prize.Conroy hadn’t even bought a lottery ticket.“Wonderful thing, the Internet,”
