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

“Where did it go?”

“It was in the closet with the coats.”

“With the bad money too?”

“The police took that away,” I said.

“This is just a rattle.”

She set it on the bookshelf between a bird book and a blue vase.

She pushed it until the handle lined up with the edge of the shelf.

“There,” she said, satisfied.