d considered Thompson a miracle worker. Jackson remembered that long-ago day when his father had looked him in the eye and said, &#8220;If you ever find a way to repay that man, you do it.&#8221; Jackson promised he would, but the next day Alex Thompson was dead. Everyone had speculated that the stress of the trial had contributed to the heart attack that took his life. </p>
<p class="excerpttext">Jackson assumed the debt had been voided at that moment. But when his widow Charlotte came to him, asking for h