I had been sitting there eleven minutes.

I folded the contract back into the envelope with two fingers, the way you handle something that might bite.

Then I turned to the last page and looked at the footer.

Small gray type, a line drawing of the Oak Creek courthouse, and a name I had seen printed on ten years of birthday cards and Christmas envelopes.

Bennett and Lowe, Attorneys at Law.

Prepared by Arthur Bennett, Senior Partner.