My Father Tossed a Blue Savings Passbook into the Mud at Cedar Ridge
I turned the napkin over.
Someone had carefully slit the backing and stitched a tiny hidden pocket into the hem.
I dug my fingernails into my palms.
I slid two fingers into the gap and pulled out a stiff white piece of cardboard.
It was a business card, yellowed and curling at the corners.
The faded black ink read Arthur Vance, Attorney at Law.
The address was a strip mall out on Route 9, past the county line.
I turned the card over.