“He lived like a ghost,” Mr.

Vance said gently, “because he had to keep their eyes on him.

You have to understand what that meant, day after day, for twenty years.

Every dollar of that fortune was sitting there, legally his, and he never touched a cent of it.”

“If Julian had spent even a single dollar,” he went on, “if he had bought a house, or a decent car, or simply allowed himself to live like a man who was not destitute, his former partners’ investigators would have seen it within days.

They kept watch on him for years, precisely because they were waiting for him to lead them to the money.