Frank Day

Insurance Salesman & Counterfeiter

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Frank Day and Jason Garamund are antagonists. Jason feared his relationship with Frank brought about his wife’s accident and death. He planned to investigate the Periphery's determined accident with the Crooked Mile Circle. Jason is sure that they are not studying the partnership between Frank Day and his brother, Lenny Garamund.
Instead, the Periphery tried to confuse the case by encouraging a rumor about Jason Garamund and a young Briar Bank college student. While continuing to spread the lie, they arrested Jason to assume appear serious.
Over the years, Jason and Frank Day engaged in sham business agreements. Their first ruse, an insurance contract that Jason and Lenny Garamund took out on the family’s Garamund Hotel in aggravated a hostility that lasted for years. Jason Garamund blamed Frank Day for getting him involved in a criminal act that wouldn’t be necessary after the war was over and Newfaire banks began offering low-interest loans to rebuild.

The Scheme

The Hotel was bombed at least three times during the Six Year War. These bombing caused damage, but the hotel remained standing. Unfortunately, the wealthy customers who supported the Hotel stopped coming. Funds to renovate the buildings and mineral springs dried up. Frank suggested he write an insurance policy for a fire. At the time, no responsibility for the war was being considered by the Primacy.
With no other way to find cash, a desperate Jason agreed to the scheme. No fire worth the insurance payout occurred, but thousands of dollars were deposited into the family account. Since their parents died during the war, the brothers split the money. Jason paid off his land purchase and manor mortgage in Crooked Mile. Lenny bought a stable for his horse lending business and invested in automobiles with an unknown partner. Frank kept one third of the insurance money to himself without letting the brothers know.

Not long after the transaction, Cathaleen Orchid Garamund, Jason’s wife, returned home from a bookselling tour. She met an old friend for lunch who told her that Frank Day bragged about his latest con. He mentioned Lenny, but not Jason. Lenny confessed he bought his auto dealership, the first in the Fairelands, with money he received from insurance, fearing the Primacy would bill him for taxes, if the money was received through an inheritance.
Three days after her lunch with her friend, Cathaleen was stuck by a hit-and-run driver on her way home from visiting her book publisher. Two years after the accident, Frank Day went missing. No one noticed or paid attention to his plight. He was seen the last time at the Hotel by a Seasway resident who told the Periphery that Frank stayed there after everyone else left. He blackmailed Jason Garamund into paying him monthly and letting him stay in the only rooms left standing.

Frank's Demise

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