North Carolina Boundary Lines Drawn on an Oak Desk

on the step above him. “With back pay.”

“Did you sign their paper?” he asked.

“No,” I said.

Don let out a slow breath, the tension in his shoulders dropping slightly as he looked down at the concrete.

“Elaine McAdams found the key,” he said, referring to the Georgetown political scientist who had spent days in the state library. “She continue reading …