He arranged for us to open it together and document what we found.

Inside was a slim black binder containing deposit slips, a receipt from Marianne Voss’s service, and a note in Robert’s handwriting.

One line was underlined twice: Placement must remain confidential to Evelyn; no direct contact.

I felt my chair move beneath me though I hadn’t shifted.

Daniel read the note carefully.

“We don’t yet know whether Robert wrote that as an instruction or copied it from someone else.

But the language is significant.”