Not one dollar has come out of it since.”

“Someone took five thousand out of it last Wednesday.” He turned the ledger sheet around to face me.

“And now someone is wiring it back to you as a gift.”

I put both hands flat on the edge of his desk and kept them there.

“So the refund is really my own money.”

“The refund is your own money.” Douglas pushed a second page across.

“And the freeze caught the next try.