“That’s a rather convenient explanation. You never checked it out?”
“Why would I? I work with him, I’m not his superior. I’m sure if there were any concerns they’d have been raised and checked out.”
“Strangely, it seems that there never have been any, despite his lavish lifestyle. None that were ever formally recorded. But you can’t tell me you were never jealous. You worked so hard to save your money for retirement, yet you saw him frittering it away like it didn’t matter. You can’t tell me you were never tempted to check where he got it all from? Or even just looked into who his family were?”
Davies actually found himself laughing. Judging by the expression on the colonel’s face that didn’t go down too well.
“I’m sorry, Colonel, but are you kidding? Why on earth would I waste
