Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars and a Missing Name on a Ledger

sat at a corner table in the basement archives, a stack of county property books open in front of him.

He took off his reading glasses and polished them with his tie as I sat down.

“Did you find the registration?” I asked, keeping my voice low.

“I did,” Raymond said, sliding a copy of a county deed transfer toward me.

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