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EVELYN STARTS TO UNRAVEL
"Did you find anything in the maple box?"
"No, Chairperson Evelyn. Besides myself, I had our best engineers examine the box. From what we can tell, it's nothing more than an antique jewelry case."
"Let me look at that."
Claude handed the box to Evelyn. She turned it over and over, shook it, raised its lid and examined the pull-out drawers. She even held it to her nose to smell.
"Do you know why this ‘H’ is chiseled into the lid?"
"I was told that the ‘H’ stands for the last name of Rollie Sweats' great-grandmother from several hundred years ago. Apparently, this box has been in the Sweats' family since then and passed down from generation to generation."
"Claude, don't you find it odd that the Sweats' Grandmother would give this rare antique to a girlfri
