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

chop marks,” I said, sliding the photocopy of the ledger toward him. “They were used by families who needed to verify that their savings were intact. My father was holding the money for them.”

Mr. Gentry looked at the ledger photocopy, then at my list. His finger traced the name Lin and the hand-drawn arrow next to it.

“If this ledger continue reading …