He sat.

I heard a chair scrape behind me and Evelyn Thorne slid in beside Frank and set her yellow highlighter on her knee.

Brennan read from his notebook for a while without a sound in the room.

Then he looked up.

“On the record.

The court finds the signature on exhibit four to be an outright forgery, Mr.

Voss.

The forty-thousand-dollar encumbrance is void.