Nathaniel flipped through the yellowed daily man-hour sheets until he reached the drywall schedule for the previous November.

Arthur Vance had billed Whitmore Construction forty-two dollars an hour for a lead finish specialist under crew code seven.

“Look at the payment vouchers,” Nathaniel said, tracing his index finger along the bottom line of the summary sheet.

“Check four-zero-nine.”

Brenda tapped her glasses against her clipboard and pulled up the microfilmed bank records on her tablet.

“Check four-zero-nine was issued for fourteen thousand dollars,” Brenda said, zooming in on the microfilmed endorsement line.

“It went to Vance Supply Management.”