Forty Thousand Dollars and the Deed to Maple Avenue Bakery

I have heard in weeks, Arthur,” I said, pausing before I spoke.

Arthur did not smile. He tapped his finger against a fresh printout from the county database.

“There is a complication,” Arthur said. “Our automated title search pulled up an active secondary mortgage on the bakery property for forty thousand dollars. It was registered three years ago, and continue reading …