I drew two heavy red circles around clause forty-two.

By ten on Wednesday morning, I was sitting at a public research terminal on the third floor of the records office at the Connecticut State Capitol.

The air smelled of old paper and floor wax.

The clerk brought a blue card stock folder to my table and stamped the top corner in red ink.

Inside was the original certificate of incorporation for Apex Consulting LLC, filed three years earlier.

The principal executive officer named on page two was Margaret Holloway.