I Told the Mob Boss I Would Not Be Bought, So He Offered to Be Sold novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: Entry by Entry
The reading room had gone so quiet I could hear the gas fixtures hiss.
I lifted the logbook out of the chest in both hands and held it up so the whole room could see the broken spine.
"This is a private ledger," I said. "It belonged to a man named Luc Gaillard, who died in the Folly River on the twenty-sixth of November, eight years ago."
In the second row Honorine did not move.
"He kept it for the Edisto and Cooper Savings Bank, and he kept it honestly. He wrote down what he saw."
I opened it to the first page.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I sell things for a living. I know what a lot is worth, and I know what a man pays to have one buried. So I am going to read you this book the way I read a sale."
I took the gavel in my right hand.
"Entry one. March the fourth, nine years ago. A deposit of two hundred and eleven thousand dollars in cash, in the name of a dock company that does not exist."
I looked up.
"Opening bid, two hundred and eleven thousand dollars and one honest man's job."
A sound went through the room, a low shifting sound.
"Moved to Panama within the week. The initials in the margin are W. A. P."
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