Several former contractors were investigated independently.

It was painful and expensive.

That did not make it unjust.

One evening I found a clipping from an old newspaper in a box of my father’s papers.

The headline celebrated his first major acquisition.

In the photograph he was standing beside Walter, both men smiling under the sign of our first warehouse.

I’d spent my life trying to become that picture.

I put it away instead of hanging it on the wall.