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

Chest height.

Someone had stood inside my house to take it.

“That’s inside the house,” I said.

“That’s what got submitted.”

“Who sent it in?”

He flipped the page, read the back, and said the form had a case number but no name.

Across the street, two porch chairs scraped back.

A screen door shut, then another.