With tension heightened by the pickpocketing incident,, the three reporters walked through the massive concourse of Sants station, following directions to locate an exit with a taxi rank.
Tom spied an ATM. “Wait a minute, I want to check this new card and see if it"s been activated yet. I need some cash.” Tom extracted the card from his wallet, slotted it into the machine, and keyed in the four-digit PIN.
“That"s strange,” he said. “Matthews said there"d be a limit of five hundred pounds on the card, but this machine says I can withdraw up to a thousand euros. I"d better phone the bank and check.” Tom took the card from the machine, checked for the phone number on the back, and called the banking centre to query his account details.
“The evil bastard,” he muttered when he"d disconnected
