A commercial note had reached the end of its term, which is what they do, and the holder had exercised the most ordinary right in finance, which is to decline.

And then Martha said the other thing.

“The note isn’t ours.

We sold it in 2019.”

“To who?”

And she turned the file round on the desk so I could read it myself, which she did not have to do and which I have never asked her about since.

Silver Plume Holding Company LLC.

Registered in Colorado in the August of 2018.