“Captain, I’ll say it plainly.

I can’t file this.”

“You haven’t asked what it’s about.”

“I know what it’s about.” He turned the page to face me and tapped the second paragraph.

“Whitmore Construction poured the slab under this building.

They did the parking lot and the drainage.

My lease runs through a holding company with three names on it, and one of them is hers.”

A golf pencil stood in his pen cup beside a letter opener shaped like a fish.