He said he was going to put one last set of handwritten notes in the shed box before the weekend was out.”

“And then he went out on the water,” Sophie said.

Vance smoothed the front of his manila folder.

“He knew Dean was keeping track of where he went.

Daniel wanted the paper trail safe with an outside auditor before he faced his brother at the bank.”

Vance pulled a black desk calendar out from under his ledger sheets.

He turned the heavy pages back six years and stopped at a page marked in blue ink.

“Look at that date,” Vance said.