“Paragraph four looks clean on the surface,” Wade said, his voice flat and exact.

“Paragraph five takes the pension payout from the parish’s general discretionary budget.”

He turned to page three, his eyes narrowing behind his silver frames as he worked through the single-spaced text.

“What have you found, Wade?” I asked.

“Look at page four, clause nine,” Wade said, turning the folder so I could see a line of tiny print at the bottom.

“This isn’t a church release document, Tom.”