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

“I’m not pressing charges against her,” I said.

Evelyn gave one nod.

“She was foolish, not cruel.”

“She was both,” I said.

“But she told the truth when it mattered.”

Evelyn raised her cup and didn’t drink.

“Did Derek’s restitution order come through?”

“It was signed last Tuesday.