Claire separated three later receipts.

October 2.

October 18.

November 1.

Each represented another request or collection of records.

The sequence mattered more than any one stamp.

She had gone back because the first request did not supply the agreement, the next referred to another page, and the material she received still needed to be compared with the original papers at the house.

“On June fourteenth,” she said, “I saw the expense authorization reference beside the later property record.