Major Hannah Nolan Comes Home to Chesapeake and Discovers Nineteen Thousand Dollars Gone

“There’s also a gap in the dates, Your Honor.

The witness attestation is dated June ninth.

The affidavit it supposedly witnesses is dated June twelfth.”

“Then it isn’t much of a witness attestation, is it,” Judge Vance said.

Patricia sank back into her seat.

The judge wrote something, slowly, turned the page, and wrote some more.

“Custody,” he said.

“Full legal and physical custody goes back to Major Nolan, effective this morning.