It was dated three months before David deployed and was addressed straight to Julian.

Arthur had written that he’d gone over Julian’s quarterly liabilities and confirmed that the investment firm was eighty thousand dollars in default to its main creditors.

In the second paragraph, Arthur told Julian he had spoken to David directly about the defense supply contracts over a Sunday dinner at Elmwood Lane.

Arthur wrote that David was being inflexible about federal accounting rules and wouldn’t mark the audit files closed.

Further down the page, Arthur had typed two sentences in bold, telling Julian to open a separate commercial escrow account in David’s personal name without David knowing.