“She put her name on it?” I asked.

“She signed the first page,” Wade said, tapping the second sheet with his pencil.

“Look at paragraph four.”

I leaned forward under the overhead light and read the legal wording, typed in the format Arthur’s office used.

The clause said that if Margaret remarried before her death, every remaining claim to Kade’s estate, property land grants, and corporate holdings would be immediately waived and transferred to First National Bank as sole managing executor.

“Arthur slipped a poison pill into her marriage application,” I said.