Forty Thousand Dollars in Marked Bills Found in a Safe Deposit Box

said, his thumb brushing the edge of the ledger page. “The people he was helping had nothing left but the clothes on their backs and whatever gold leaf they could sew into their linings.”

I stared at the column of figures, each one showing exactly one thousand dollars next to a family name.

“Where did the forty thousand dollars come from?” I asked.

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