“I stopped looking at the detail sheets,” Nathaniel said.

“I let him run my job sites while I stayed shut up in my house.”

Daisy walked over to the workbench and laid her paper star on the green ledger, right on top of the crew numbers.

“Is this the map for our new house?” Daisy asked, looking up at Nathaniel.

Nathaniel looked at the child’s small hand resting on the stolen ledger page, then at the signature on the blueprint that had cleared Arthur’s fraud.

“No, Daisy,” Nathaniel said, closing the green ledger over the yellow paper star.