“The bonding company insists on it.”

“I haven’t been sick.”

“No one said you had.”

Page two had a line for a doctor’s signature, a line for a witness, and a paragraph giving the trustee’s counsel the right to order an examination whenever he saw fit.

I read it through twice.

Then I asked for a copy to take home.

He laid his hand flat on the form and slid it back across the blotter.

“Reception will copy it and mail it to you.”