{"id":18964,"date":"2026-09-24T16:14:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T16:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=18964"},"modified":"2026-09-24T16:14:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T16:14:20","slug":"part-10-arthurs-note-pointed-to-a-witness-nobody-remembered-until-an-old-firehouse-connection-exposed-why-margarets-second-will-had-stayed-hidden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=18964","title":{"rendered":"PART 10 \u2013 Arthur\u2019s Note Pointed to a Witness Nobody Remembered, Until an Old Firehouse Connection Exposed Why Margaret\u2019s Second Will Had Stayed Hidden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Vale.<\/p>\n<p>I read the name repeatedly.<\/p>\n<p>It meant nothing to me.<\/p>\n<p>Roy looked equally confused.<\/p>\n<p>Sandra shook her head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never heard of him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Katz wrote the name on a legal pad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArthur had.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do you know?\u201d Roy asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe notation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat doesn\u2019t tell us how.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I looked at the document again.<\/p>\n<p>The writing at the bottom was unmistakably Arthur\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Vale is the key.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen did Arthur see this will?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Katz paused.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat isn\u2019t reassuring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sandra sat down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCould Dad have known there were two wills?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPossibly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roy gave a humorless laugh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApparently he knew everything except how to tell us anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That was unfair.<\/p>\n<p>It was also not entirely false.<\/p>\n<p>Arthur had preserved truth with extraordinary care.<\/p>\n<p>He had also delayed telling the living people most affected by it.<\/p>\n<p>I was beginning to understand that love and secrecy could coexist for years without ever becoming friends.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Katz printed the older will.<\/p>\n<p>We compared it with the later one Roy had probated after Margaret\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>The later document divided everything equally between Roy and Sandra.<\/p>\n<p>No Daniel.<\/p>\n<p>No mention of Whitmore Safety Consulting.<\/p>\n<p>It revoked prior wills.<\/p>\n<p>If valid, it would have replaced the earlier document completely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo why reopen the estate?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Katz answered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Claire claimed the later will was invalid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roy looked up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe witnessed the earlier one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe could argue Mom lacked capacity when she signed the later will.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sandra frowned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMom was sick then.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow sick?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>She looked toward Roy.<\/p>\n<p>He answered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCancer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I felt a dull familiarity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow close to her death?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbout four months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sandra shook her head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was still herself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMostly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She turned on him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMostly?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToward the end, she was on medication.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat doesn\u2019t mean she didn\u2019t understand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t say that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Katz interjected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWas the later will prepared by an attorney?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roy nodded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat helps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHelps what?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSupport validity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sandra looked at the screen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen Claire should have lost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Katz scrolled through the reopening petition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe didn\u2019t challenge Margaret\u2019s capacity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roy frowned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did she claim?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Katz read.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFraud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The word landed heavily.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFraud by whom?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>He looked at Roy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArthur.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roy\u2019s face changed.<\/p>\n<p>Sandra whispered, \u201cDad?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Claire\u2019s petition alleged that Arthur had pressured Margaret to sign the later will in exchange for paying her medical and assisted-living expenses.<\/p>\n<p>I felt heat rise into my face.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s absurd.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sandra looked at me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou weren\u2019t there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I forced myself to slow down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I knew Arthur.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roy laughed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou keep saying that right before we discover another secret.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The remark hurt because it was effective.<\/p>\n<p>I did not answer.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Katz continued reading.<\/p>\n<p>Claire claimed Arthur wanted Daniel removed because of the affair and because Daniel\u2019s connection to Sandra threatened Arthur\u2019s sense of family identity.<\/p>\n<p>Sandra\u2019s jaw tightened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat doesn\u2019t sound like Dad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roy looked at her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve learned a lot today about what sounded like Dad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She ignored him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat evidence did Claire provide?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA declaration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom whom?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Katz scrolled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThomas Vale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The name again.<\/p>\n<p>We all leaned closer.<\/p>\n<p>Vale\u2019s declaration stated that he had known Arthur and Margaret for decades.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed Arthur resented Daniel.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed Arthur once said he would make sure Daniel never received \u201ca penny connected to my family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roy pointed at the screen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat sounds believable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sandra looked at him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is wrong with you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m saying Dad hated the guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor trying to blackmail him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat came later.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Katz continued.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Vale also claimed he witnessed Arthur arguing with Margaret about her estate during the final year of her life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was there?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sandra whispered, \u201cWho is he?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That became the question.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Katz searched public records.<\/p>\n<p>There were several Thomas Vales.<\/p>\n<p>Too many.<\/p>\n<p>Then I remembered the way Arthur labeled people.<\/p>\n<p>Not by title.<\/p>\n<p>By context.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSearch firefighters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Katz looked at me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArthur wrote the note.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He typed.<\/p>\n<p>The result appeared almost immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas E. Vale.<\/p>\n<p>Retired fire captain.<\/p>\n<p>Same department as Arthur.<\/p>\n<p>Roy sat back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sandra stared at the profile.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s Tommy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know him?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBarely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roy did.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDad worked with him for years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The name had changed once paired with the face.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Vale appeared in an old department photograph online.<\/p>\n<p>Silver hair.<\/p>\n<p>Square jaw.<\/p>\n<p>Wide shoulders even in retirement.<\/p>\n<p>Roy nodded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo why didn\u2019t either of you recognize the name?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sandra answered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody called him Tommy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Katz searched deeper.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Vale had retired eighteen years earlier.<\/p>\n<p>He later moved into private fire-safety consulting.<\/p>\n<p>My stomach tightened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhitmore Safety Consulting?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Katz nodded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPartner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There it was.<\/p>\n<p>Another bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Margaret.<\/p>\n<p>Arthur.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel.<\/p>\n<p>Claire.<\/p>\n<p>And now Tommy Vale.<\/p>\n<p>All connected to the company.<\/p>\n<p>Roy leaned toward the laptop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow much of the business did Vale own?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Katz searched the sale documents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwenty percent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roy frowned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo he made money when Dad sold.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCould he know about Mom\u2019s investment?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlmost certainly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sandra stared at the older will.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd he witnessed it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A pattern was forming.<\/p>\n<p>I still could not see the full shape.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere is he now?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Katz searched.<\/p>\n<p>A death notice appeared.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Vale died eleven months earlier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGreat,\u201d Roy muttered.<\/p>\n<p>I ignored him.<\/p>\n<p>The obituary contained family names.<\/p>\n<p>Wife deceased.<\/p>\n<p>One son.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Vale.<\/p>\n<p>Sandra pointed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSearch him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Katz did.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Vale worked as an attorney.<\/p>\n<p>Probate and estate litigation.<\/p>\n<p>The room went quiet.<\/p>\n<p>Roy whispered, \u201cYou\u2019ve got to be kidding me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We opened his professional profile.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew\u2019s office was in Eastbridge.<\/p>\n<p>The same town as the bank branch.<\/p>\n<p>Sandra looked at Mr. Katz.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCould he have helped Claire reopen Mom\u2019s estate?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A search of the docket confirmed it.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney for petitioner: Matthew T. Vale.<\/p>\n<p>Roy stood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo this was planned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCertainly coordinated,\u201d Mr. Katz said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy Claire and Vale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt minimum.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd Daniel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPotentially.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sandra looked at the older will.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut why now?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That was the part that bothered me most.<\/p>\n<p>Margaret had been dead six years.<\/p>\n<p>The earlier will had been hidden seven.<\/p>\n<p>Why wait until Arthur was days from death?<\/p>\n<p>Arthur\u2019s note had been specific.<\/p>\n<p>Vale is the key.<\/p>\n<p>Not Claire.<\/p>\n<p>Not Daniel.<\/p>\n<p>Vale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe Tommy told his son something before he died,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Katz looked at me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomething Arthur knew Tommy knew.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roy frowned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat sentence makes no sense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt does.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sandra understood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDad wrote Vale is the key. If Tommy died eleven months ago, maybe something surfaced after his death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Katz searched probate records for Thomas Vale.<\/p>\n<p>His estate had been simple.<\/p>\n<p>House.<\/p>\n<p>Retirement accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Personal property.<\/p>\n<p>No obvious connection.<\/p>\n<p>Then Roy pointed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBusiness files.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The inventory listed archived records from Whitmore Safety Consulting as personal property transferred to Matthew Vale.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Katz stared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArthur\u2019s old company files.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I felt the hair rise on my arms.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Vale had kept records.<\/p>\n<p>His son inherited them.<\/p>\n<p>Within months, Claire reopened Margaret\u2019s estate.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel received four hundred thousand dollars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo Matthew found the old will in Tommy\u2019s files,\u201d Sandra said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPossibly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roy shook his head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat still doesn\u2019t explain why it matters if the later will revoked it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Katz nodded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnless Matthew found evidence affecting the later will.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike what?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He searched the docket attachments again.<\/p>\n<p>There was a scanned exhibit we had not opened.<\/p>\n<p>Document title: Consulting Ledger, 2005\u20132008.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Katz opened it.<\/p>\n<p>Arthur\u2019s company records.<\/p>\n<p>Payments.<\/p>\n<p>Invoices.<\/p>\n<p>Travel expenses.<\/p>\n<p>Then one entry highlighted in yellow.<\/p>\n<p>Margaret Whitmore \u2014 Special Distribution \u2014 $800,000 reserve.<\/p>\n<p>Roy pointed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s her share.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Below it was a note.<\/p>\n<p>Funds retained pending resolution of beneficiary designation.<\/p>\n<p>Sandra frowned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat beneficiary designation?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another attached exhibit answered.<\/p>\n<p>A memorandum signed by Arthur and Thomas Vale twelve years earlier.<\/p>\n<p>It stated that Margaret\u2019s company proceeds were to remain available to her during her lifetime and, upon her death, pass according to her valid estate plan.<\/p>\n<p>Valid estate plan.<\/p>\n<p>Not automatically to Roy and Sandra.<\/p>\n<p>Not automatically to Daniel.<\/p>\n<p>Whoever legally inherited from Margaret would control the claim.<\/p>\n<p>The earlier will favored Daniel.<\/p>\n<p>The later will did not.<\/p>\n<p>Everything depended on which will was valid.<\/p>\n<p>Roy sat slowly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo four hundred thousand went to Daniel because Claire got the old will recognized.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Katz nodded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut why only four hundred?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sandra answered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause even under that will, maybe he wasn\u2019t entitled to all of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We read more carefully.<\/p>\n<p>The earlier will did not give Daniel Margaret\u2019s entire company claim.<\/p>\n<p>It gave him fifty percent.<\/p>\n<p>The other half went equally to Roy and Sandra.<\/p>\n<p>Four hundred thousand.<\/p>\n<p>Exactly.<\/p>\n<p>I saw Roy doing the math.<\/p>\n<p>Two hundred thousand for him.<\/p>\n<p>Two hundred thousand for Sandra.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid Claire take those amounts too?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Katz checked the bank records.<\/p>\n<p>No.<\/p>\n<p>Only Daniel\u2019s four hundred thousand had been transferred.<\/p>\n<p>Roy looked furious.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo she recognized the old will only when it benefited Daniel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sandra frowned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat doesn\u2019t make sense legally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Katz nodded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt may not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen how did the bank accept it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe court order may have been sufficient.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roy pointed to the screen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy didn\u2019t Claire distribute the rest?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No one knew.<\/p>\n<p>Until I noticed a small notation at the bottom of the probate docket.<\/p>\n<p>Pending distribution dispute.<\/p>\n<p>Filed two days before Arthur died.<\/p>\n<p>I read the title aloud.<\/p>\n<p>Objection to Distribution.<\/p>\n<p>Sandra stared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho filed it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Katz opened the document.<\/p>\n<p>The objector was Arthur Whitmore.<\/p>\n<p>My breath caught.<\/p>\n<p>Arthur had intervened.<\/p>\n<p>From his deathbed.<\/p>\n<p>His filing argued the reopened probate had been obtained through incomplete disclosure.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed the later will was valid.<\/p>\n<p>He challenged Claire\u2019s authority.<\/p>\n<p>And he demanded the transfer to Daniel be reversed.<\/p>\n<p>Roy leaned forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo Dad knew exactly what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen why didn\u2019t he tell any of us?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Katz read the next paragraph.<\/p>\n<p>Arthur claimed he had newly discovered evidence proving the earlier will had been created under fraudulent circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>Sandra whispered, \u201cWhat evidence?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Katz scrolled.<\/p>\n<p>Exhibit withheld pending evidentiary hearing.<\/p>\n<p>No attachment.<\/p>\n<p>Roy cursed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere is it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Katz searched Arthur\u2019s estate file.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing.<\/p>\n<p>I thought of the twenty-two envelopes.<\/p>\n<p>The bank box.<\/p>\n<p>The workshop.<\/p>\n<p>Arthur had hidden important things in layers.<\/p>\n<p>He had expected people to search.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if it\u2019s still at the house?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Katz looked at me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPossible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sandra was already gathering her purse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen let\u2019s go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roy stood.<\/p>\n<p>This time no one argued.<\/p>\n<p>We drove back to the house in three cars.<\/p>\n<p>The sky had darkened.<\/p>\n<p>Rain threatened again.<\/p>\n<p>When I unlocked the front door, the house smelled exactly as it had after the funeral.<\/p>\n<p>Coffee.<\/p>\n<p>Flowers.<\/p>\n<p>Cold fireplace ash.<\/p>\n<p>Arthur.<\/p>\n<p>For a moment I could not move.<\/p>\n<p>Sandra touched my arm.<\/p>\n<p>Not as an intruder.<\/p>\n<p>Not as a rival.<\/p>\n<p>As another person who missed him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere would he put legal papers?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roy started that way.<\/p>\n<p>I stopped him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He turned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe search together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His expression hardened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou still don\u2019t trust me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At least we had reached the point where honesty saved time.<\/p>\n<p>We entered Arthur\u2019s office together.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing looked disturbed.<\/p>\n<p>Desk.<\/p>\n<p>Bookshelves.<\/p>\n<p>Old fire helmet.<\/p>\n<p>A framed photo of the station crew.<\/p>\n<p>I checked the drawer where Sandra\u2019s letter had been.<\/p>\n<p>Empty.<\/p>\n<p>Roy searched the filing cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>Sandra checked books.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Katz examined the desk carefully.<\/p>\n<p>Then he crouched.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He pointed beneath the bottom drawer.<\/p>\n<p>A strip of wood did not align with the frame.<\/p>\n<p>Arthur loved hidden compartments.<\/p>\n<p>Of course he had built one into his desk.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Katz pressed the panel.<\/p>\n<p>It released.<\/p>\n<p>Inside was a narrow envelope.<\/p>\n<p>Written across it:<\/p>\n<p>IF THEY FIND THE WILL, FIND TOMMY\u2019S LAST STATEMENT.<\/p>\n<p>Sandra inhaled.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Katz opened the envelope.<\/p>\n<p>Inside was no statement.<\/p>\n<p>Only an address.<\/p>\n<p>A street.<\/p>\n<p>A number.<\/p>\n<p>And a name.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Vale.<\/p>\n<p>Roy frowned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s his office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo,\u201d Mr. Katz said.<\/p>\n<p>He looked it up.<\/p>\n<p>The address belonged to a storage facility.<\/p>\n<p>Sandra stared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTommy\u2019s archived files.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Katz nodded.<\/p>\n<p>Arthur had not hidden the evidence at home.<\/p>\n<p>He had hidden directions to where the evidence could still be found.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=18965\">Click here to continue reading: PART 11: The Storage Unit Held More Than Old Business Records, Including One Recording That Changed What We Believed About Margaret\u2019s Final Will<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Vale. I read the name repeatedly. It meant nothing to me. Roy looked equally confused. 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