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Authors: Keith Armstrong
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to help save our daughter. It’s a lovely gesture and it has taken me completely by surprise, don’t think I am ungrateful, but £500,000 is an awful lot of money to raise.”
“We know that Mike, but firstly your family are thought a lot of in the area and Rachel is such a great kid, and when I asked the various people, they didn’t give it a second thought.
We know it’s a lot of money to raise, but we feel we can do it, I just wanted to let you know, that you and Brenda are not on your own and that people care and want to help you.”
Mike walked over to Maria and embraced her, and could feel tears rolling down his cheeks, he was overwhelmed by this gesture of generosity.
“I don’t know what to say, you have taken the wind out of my sales I didn’t expect this, you have made me speechless. All these people prepared to help us; it’s just too much to take in. You are a lovely girl Maria and such a good person for organising all of this, all I can say is that Brenda and I will be forever grateful to you and the rest of the organisers and the committee, of course Rachel will be really overjoyed.”
“OK that’s settled then, if you are in agreement, we are holding our first committee meeting in the Duke this coming Friday at 7.00 p.m. It’s the soonest I can get everyone together, would you and Brenda come?”
“Of course Maria, we will be delighted, plus it will give us chance to thank everyone personally.”
Mike walked Maria to reception; he thanked her again for organizing it all and gave her another hug. He left the office early and went straight home to give Brenda the news.
They discussed it until the early hours of the morning, and the fact that all these people wanted to help, made Brenda feel that it wasn’t charity but fund raising for a good cause.
“Bren I think we should make contact with Mr Mohammed later today, and tell him what has happened and ask him to set the wheels in motion, what do you think?”
Brenda agreed that they should do it without delay.
Whilst they lay in bed, Mike thought that he should abandon the hair brain idea of the fake currency.
How could he contemplate doing something so bad, when all these people had volunteered to do something so good, it was against all his principals, was insane, stupid and against everything he had ever thought was right and proper.
They should abandon the whole sorry episode, ok Moxie would be upset, but he would get over it in time. But then, suppose in three or six months time there was a huge shortfall and they couldn’t raise the money what then? Time was not on their side, if this happened Rachel would be in a bad situation with no time to organise anything else.
No they would have to go ahead at least with printing the money, and if the situation changed between now and Xmas, they could abandon it before they actually distributed it, and just dispose of all the money. After all the only people who would be involved in producing the money would be himself, Tony and Derek who he would be talking to shortly.
Chapter 7
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Good morning, Central Cars can I help you?”
“Good morning, can I speak with Mr Miller please?”
“Yes, who’s calling?”
“It’s Richard Reichert the III”
“Putting you through Sir.”
“Hello Mr Reichert, John Miller here can I help you?”
“Yes Mr Millar I think you can, but please call me Richard. My Company are opening a new division in the north of England in the coming weeks, and we will be looking for cars for our senior executives.”
“You don’t sound like you are from this neck of the woods?” said Miller
“No Sir, my parent company Digital For All, is based in Seattle in the USA. We manufacture high tech components for the computer and electronics industry, and we will be setting up a manufacturing operation shortly in Trafford Park.”
“That’s very interesting Mr Reichert, what type of cars will you be looking for, because as you might be aware, we are agents for
“We know that Mike, but firstly your family are thought a lot of in the area and Rachel is such a great kid, and when I asked the various people, they didn’t give it a second thought.
We know it’s a lot of money to raise, but we feel we can do it, I just wanted to let you know, that you and Brenda are not on your own and that people care and want to help you.”
Mike walked over to Maria and embraced her, and could feel tears rolling down his cheeks, he was overwhelmed by this gesture of generosity.
“I don’t know what to say, you have taken the wind out of my sales I didn’t expect this, you have made me speechless. All these people prepared to help us; it’s just too much to take in. You are a lovely girl Maria and such a good person for organising all of this, all I can say is that Brenda and I will be forever grateful to you and the rest of the organisers and the committee, of course Rachel will be really overjoyed.”
“OK that’s settled then, if you are in agreement, we are holding our first committee meeting in the Duke this coming Friday at 7.00 p.m. It’s the soonest I can get everyone together, would you and Brenda come?”
“Of course Maria, we will be delighted, plus it will give us chance to thank everyone personally.”
Mike walked Maria to reception; he thanked her again for organizing it all and gave her another hug. He left the office early and went straight home to give Brenda the news.
They discussed it until the early hours of the morning, and the fact that all these people wanted to help, made Brenda feel that it wasn’t charity but fund raising for a good cause.
“Bren I think we should make contact with Mr Mohammed later today, and tell him what has happened and ask him to set the wheels in motion, what do you think?”
Brenda agreed that they should do it without delay.
Whilst they lay in bed, Mike thought that he should abandon the hair brain idea of the fake currency.
How could he contemplate doing something so bad, when all these people had volunteered to do something so good, it was against all his principals, was insane, stupid and against everything he had ever thought was right and proper.
They should abandon the whole sorry episode, ok Moxie would be upset, but he would get over it in time. But then, suppose in three or six months time there was a huge shortfall and they couldn’t raise the money what then? Time was not on their side, if this happened Rachel would be in a bad situation with no time to organise anything else.
No they would have to go ahead at least with printing the money, and if the situation changed between now and Xmas, they could abandon it before they actually distributed it, and just dispose of all the money. After all the only people who would be involved in producing the money would be himself, Tony and Derek who he would be talking to shortly.
Chapter 7
˜
Good morning, Central Cars can I help you?”
“Good morning, can I speak with Mr Miller please?”
“Yes, who’s calling?”
“It’s Richard Reichert the III”
“Putting you through Sir.”
“Hello Mr Reichert, John Miller here can I help you?”
“Yes Mr Millar I think you can, but please call me Richard. My Company are opening a new division in the north of England in the coming weeks, and we will be looking for cars for our senior executives.”
“You don’t sound like you are from this neck of the woods?” said Miller
“No Sir, my parent company Digital For All, is based in Seattle in the USA. We manufacture high tech components for the computer and electronics industry, and we will be setting up a manufacturing operation shortly in Trafford Park.”
“That’s very interesting Mr Reichert, what type of cars will you be looking for, because as you might be aware, we are agents for
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