We had used every single dollar Tom approved to beat the Grand Island rep.

Tom gathered the heavy stack of paper and tapped it on his desk to straighten the edges.

He opened a manila folder and took out a single sheet of thick paper.

“The county takes a few weeks to record everything formally,” Tom said.

“But this is the actual deed to the eighty acres.”

He pushed it across the wooden desk to me.

I reached out and touched the raised seal in the bottom corner.