Below that, a line for tax, and below that a handwritten adjustment of sixty-two dollars with a manager’s initials, and then a total, and then PAID IN FULL, CASH.

“Where did you get fourteen hundred dollars, Julian?”

“Nine hundred for the guitar,” he said.

“Mr.

Keller gave me a thousand.”

I had an opinion about that which I will come back to.

“That’s a thousand.

That’s not fourteen hundred.”