Agent had already learned from Bruce about the clown performer. After Bingge provided this crucial information, everything fell into place.
Not all of Mormonism's higher-ups were fools. The people in charge talked about righteousness, but business was all they cared about. They were not doing this because they truly believed in God; they were doing it to exploit their followers. And naturally, they needed somewhere secure to stash the wealth they had extracted.
So over the years, like ants moving house, they gradually transferred their assets into major banks in other cities, paving the way for their future. That clown performer, Bohr's father—Old Bohr—had also been one of those involved in the asset-transfer plan. In other words, he was the owner of some of the safe-deposit boxes. As Bohr's descendant, Linda had inheritance rights.
But that was not the key point. The key was the safe-deposit box Agent and Pursuer had encountered at the bank. They had previously guessed that it was the evil spirit's scheme. By making the people who touched the box meet two conditions at once, the evil spirit had placed it in the bank vault.
And that box was the scare box the clown had used in his stage act. That could not possibly have been a coincidence.
If the evil spirit had already existed before the town massacre, and someone had placed a harmful scare box in a bank vault before the massacre, then the identity of that long-present evil spirit was obvious. There had to be something wrong with Old Bohr.
Having sorted out the clues, Agent stopped wasting time. He said to Bingge, "You have nothing to do here anyway. Why not leave with me? You know this town better and can show me the way."
"But I..."
"Your mother is out of