“The net check will hit your bank account Wednesday morning.”

The net deposit came through at nine hundred and seventy-eight dollars after state and federal taxes.

On my lunch hour, I drove the pickup downtown to Miller Electrical Supply behind the grain elevator.

The clerk at the counter loaded a gray steel breaker box and three fifty-pound wooden spools of twelve-gauge copper wire into the truck bed.

He stamped the white invoice paid in blue ink and slid four dollars in cash across the counter.

“That leaves you four dollars on the ticket,” he said.