“This says paid in full by certified cashier’s check.”

“That’s right,” Arthur said.

“The conveyance was recorded at the Maricopa County clerk’s counter at eight fifteen this morning.”

“Where would she come up with seven hundred thousand dollars?” Renee asked, her voice losing every bit of its administrative polish.

“She’s been living in our back house for eighteen months.”

“My mother was a bookkeeper for a lumber company in Tucson,” Daniel said, his thumb smearing the blue ink seal in the corner of the deed.

“She had forty-one thousand dollars in her liquid credit union account.”