Beneath the memorandum was a handwritten instruction, initialed with a mark that looked like mine: Proceed.

No further inquiry.

“I never wrote that,” I said.

Dana compared the initials to the other marks in the file.

“I can’t conclude it’s forged just by looking.

But I can request the archived correspondence and ask who delivered that instruction.”

Then she showed me a letter that had gone to an address in my name while I was traveling.

It had been returned to the firm’s file marked delivered to authorized household agent.