“Evelyn has no business passing sub-tier site sheets across the lunch counter.”

“Why were three finish workers taken off the December roll?” Nathaniel asked.

“They pulled off the job,” Arthur said flatly.

“Voluntary departures.

It happens every winter when the wind cuts through the open framing.”

“Martha Miller worked forty hours a week through November,” Nathaniel said.

“Her name was crossed out in blue ballpoint.”

Arthur leaned one arm on the black roof of his vehicle.