Whether it changed him was his responsibility, not mine.

PART 9

Joan phoned with news from the financial inquiry in early autumn.

She did not announce that the case was solved.

Instead she said investigators had obtained records from a bank outside Illinois after months of requests and legal review.

The papers provided an independent timeline for several payments involving Bridgeway.

They suggested the questioned transfers had been directed from an account Gerald controlled, but they still required testimony to establish who authorized each transaction.

‘It means the story is getting clearer,’ she told me.