Part Forty-Seven: What My Father Had in a Desk

Thaddeus Thorne was deposed on the fourth of August 2025 for two hours and forty minutes and I was not allowed in the room.

He was eighty-five.

He answered everything.

He did not know the figure — he had never seen a statement in his life and he was telling the truth about that, and Imogen tested it four ways and it held.

And on page sixty-one he was asked whether his father had ever discussed the trust with him, and he said yes, once, in the November of 1994, and that there had been a letter.