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When Spike, Nancy and Roger reconvened at MicroLabs the next day Spike said, "Nancy you should never have taken the risk you did last night."
"Well, luckily everything turned out okay," said Roger. "But next time, let's just talk to each other a little more." "Next time? I don't think we need to worry about this happening again," said Spike. "You never know," added Nancy. "There's a lot happening on the net and it won't all be legal. We have a pretty special little team here if trouble does come up again." "By the way," said Roger, "who should I send my invoice to?" "We better go up and talk to Tom Barnett. We've got a long story to tell him. Too bad he won't be able to print most of it. I think he'll understand when he hears about you Spike." "I do too Nancy. But I think I'll just wait here if you two don't mind. I've got some maintenance to catch up on. Tell Tom we'll arrange a meeting later." Tom's exclusive on the inside of the "Lexicon Embezzlement Scandal" was more than enough news for his money. And this insane story Nancy and Roger had about Spike Webb could lead to something even bigger later. Tom had to hurry to get the Lexicon expose ready before the Sunday edition deadline anyway. He was happy with what he had gotten. John Lexicon's sudden flight was the topic of all the Silicon Valley gossip for a couple of weeks. When the Chronicle's story made it known that Lexicon had been diverting cash from the company to his own accounts and had illegally liquidated his stock holdings over the previous month, his escape looked like your basic embezzlement move. Rumors of some illegal network activity didn't have enough substance to reach critical mass and the public never realized what Lexicon had been doing when he fled. A few days later Nancy asked Spike, "Do you think they'll ever find John Lexicon?"
"So what do we do?" "There's nothing we can do to find him. The FBI will carry out their routine procedures and find nothing. Lexicon is too smart and too well funded for that to work." "So all we do is wait?" "No, we prepare while we wait."
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