“He keeps pointing.

Have you noticed?

At nothing.

He has been trying, for six months, to tell someone where he hid it.

The old wooden trunk — your mother’s, from the estate.

The one you moved out to the cabin.”

Chapter 11 — The False Panel

I drove out to the cabin as the sun came up, and I hauled the heavy antique trunk into the middle of the living room floor and tore it apart.