My Family Reported Five Million Dollars Stolen Before They Ever Checked My Leather Case

She’s just trying to keep the family from looking foolish.”

“And the five million?” I asked.

“Is she trying to keep that from looking foolish too?”

Arthur laid his hand on the porch rail.

A wasp nest hung under the eave, gray and papery.

Nobody had knocked it down.

“There are accounts that need signatures before December fifteenth,” he said.

“That’s all it is.”