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“Of all people.
Why a stranger he met in a hospital room?”
Arthur reached into his coat pocket, and drew out a sealed envelope, and handed it to me.
But before I opened it, he explained the shape of the thing.
“Because Julian knew his time was short,” Arthur said.
“And he knew that his estranged son, Caleb, had begun searching for him.
Not out of any wish for reconciliation, you understand.