“He resigned abruptly after discovering that Leonard Callahan was using dummy corporations to embezzle millions from the family pension fund.”

“Did Dad try to report Leonard to the authorities?” I asked.

“He tried, but someone broke into our home, ransacked his home office, and stole all of his working files,” she wept softly.

“The only thing they missed was an identical brass key labeled three-fourteen that he had hidden inside your baby rattle box.”

Russell looked at my mother with a mix of shock and dawning realization.

“The carriage house in Wayzata was originally built by my grandfather in the late eighties as an off-site corporate records archive.”