Do not spend it before it lands.”

“What happens to the rest of it?” she asked.

“The debts he wrote in other people’s names?”

“That is a question for the district attorney, not for me.” Arthur tucked the handkerchief into his breast pocket.

“What I can tell you is that there are nine other names on that title officer’s ledger.

Yours is the first one that came to court.”

Nine names.