My Five-Year-Old Grandson Called His Mother From Our Kitchen—Then Bank Records Revealed Where $41,200 Had Gone

I had been away with Mara during that period, and we could check the arrangements and ordinary records from that week.

That did not rule out a document signed remotely or presented later; it did contradict his easy assurance that I remembered signing it in our kitchen.

I told Walter what Evan had said and what I actually remembered.

I did not change uncertainty into an eyewitness account of forgery.

“Are you ready for what the records may show?” he asked.

“For now, I’m ready to see them.”