The main collateral listed on that federal application is this property.”

Glenn drew a stapled packet of heavy legal paper out of the envelope and came back to the narrow foyer.

He held the thick document out toward me.

I didn’t take it.

“Go ahead and read the front page, kiddo,” he said.

I took the packet and looked at the bold black letters stamped across the top margin.

It was a South Carolina quitclaim deed, formally filed and stamped by the Beaufort County clerk.

It even had a fifteen-dollar recording fee receipt stapled to the back corner.