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

“I heard her, Evelyn.”

Brown envelopes.

Banks mail white ones.

Brown ones come from lawyers and title companies and courthouses.

I didn’t say that in front of Lily.

I picked up my phone and texted Douglas a single line.

Lily says the closet is full of brown envelopes.

He wrote back within a minute.