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

him through the day.

The silence between us stretched out, heavy and cold, until the courthouse clock began to strike twelve in the tower above.

I turned away and walked toward the exit, knowing that Clara Mercer was waiting for me at the bank.

By half past one, the sky had turned the color of wet slate, and the first quiet drops of autumn rain were beginning continue reading …