Eight Thousand Gallons of Milk and a Small Blue Ledger

were taken in our own back room. You can see the old green scale in the corner of the picture.”

She tapped the black-and-white photocopy with her pen, her finger resting on the small metal platform in the background.

“He wanted the board to think the design was a total loss,” I said. “He wanted them to panic.”

“He succeeded,” Evelyn continue reading …