How Four Hundred Dollars on a Lancaster Diner Table Changed One Christmas Eve

“Except three line items marked as cash adjustments.”

Nathaniel took a gray folder out of the middle drawer and laid a thin slip of paper on the oak table.

It was a folded yellow payroll receipt stamped with Martha Miller’s name in red ink across the top.

Along the bottom margin, four hundred dollars had been subtracted for unverified tool damage and unreturned safety gear.

“Martha worked four weeks on that drywall build,” Nathaniel said.

“Who authorized taking four hundred dollars out of a finisher’s pay envelope?”