They lived in the non sequitur void of snitch-out information. This new lead felt seductive and inconsequential. It was more than trivial and less than germane. Ashida plumbed the lead. He vowed to withhold it from Joan Conville. She craved the gold to his exclusion. He held the upper hand there. He possessed a gold bar and she didn’t. The bar troubled him. It was casually but expertly stashed. The heist occurred almost eleven years ago. The bar remained unutilized. He’d
