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"Who has the combination?" Forrest asked

"Only me"

Forrest nodded again, this tiht The bust isn't worth that much as a work of art, or as a historical artifact It isn't the bust itself that's valuable…"

He hesitated, and I wondered if he was finally going to tell us the truth

Chapter Forty-Five

SCARLETT

"It isn't the bust that's valuable," he said slowly, "it's the nuraved on the base"

I thought back "I don't remember any numbers on the base"

"They're allass, and they're not in a place anyone would examine closely"

"Account nuuessed

"Coded account numbers My father was brilliant, but he was paranoid He sold his first company for millions and put almost every penny into investment accounts he kept fro the account nuraved the code into the bust, saying no one would ever kno to get to the money except him He always promised my mother the money was there to protect us Until he told Prentice about the bust, and then, when things rong, there was nothing"

It wasn't my business, but I had to ask "Do you kno to break the code?"

"I guess I'll find out after your police chief verifies that I'htful owner"

"So, you came all the way down here," West said, "just to find out Prentice had sent the bust up north to auction, and then you had to buy back your own property only for Scarlett's ex and then Bryce to steal it out from under you?"