"I doubt she had much to leave," Sarah said. "The house is probably worth something, if it is not mortgaged, while her husband went bankrupt and left her destitute, and for the past fifteen years, she has been a glorified file clerk for Diana Walter, who was not the world's most generous employer, by all accounts. Deanne told me Diana was always complaining about the money she had to pay Clara. This is so unfair because if I knew Diana, she probably had Clara earning $10 an hour!"
Ryan did not answer, and Sarah turned to look at him. He was staring at something he had just pulled from the box.
"What is that?" Sarah picked her way closer to him.
Ryan held it out. "IRA- (the individual retirement account) statement. Says she had just under five million dollars in her account."
"What?" Sa
