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

“I know that now.” She looked at the yard, then back at me.

“I stood right there and believed him.”

“Did he tell you where he was?”

“No.

But Patricia called me this morning.” Evelyn drew one hand out of her pocket.

“She sent me a message.

Said you’d signed off on the whole trip, and could I keep Lily a few days longer.”

“Patricia sent you a message, did she.”