Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars and a Missing Name on a Ledger

to try to delay the reading,” Raymond said.

“They cannot,” I said.

I reached down and rubbed the smooth silver casing of my watch, feeling the small scratch near the stem where I had dropped it on the gravel driveway three years ago.

“Hochman has the formal filing in his briefcase,” I said. “It was logged into the record at eight minutes continue reading …