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Book Two, Chapter 17: The Trap

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Damien did not speak for a long time.

He looked at the countersignature, and he looked at the date, and he looked at me, and then he sat down in the chair on the other side of the desk without asking.

"That is not my hand."

"I know."

"Evelyn."

"I know it is not your hand. I have been signing things next to you for six months. You put the loop of the D at the top. Whoever did that put it at the bottom."

"Then somebody has a very good copy of it."

"Somebody has a very good copy of a lot of things
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