Published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 09/1983.
Jonas Pickett is a retired lawyer who has moved to the town of Shackleton to start a new, easier practice. His first new client is Dick Rowe who wants a will drawn but who is very secretive about his address and his past. Then Jonas is attacked, the draft stolen, and then two men kidnap him. After barely escaping, Jonas meets a man named Mr. Calder who learns that Rowe was an undercover operative and Jonas' attackers were trying to find Rowe.