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

another way.”

“There is no other way without you,” I said.

He did not answer, but his hand went back to the bronze coin, rolling it over and over against his thumb.

At three o’clock, the rain had stopped, leaving the driveway wet and dark. Raymond arrived at the house with his lawyer, a sharp-faced young man named Carter who carried a black leather briefcase continue reading …