We circled it in red and moved on.

The entries totaled almost three hundred thousand in the currency shown on the account statements.

Some were recorded as pesos even though I lived and worked in Phoenix, a discrepancy that demanded explanation rather than a convenient guess.

Mr.

Callahan wanted the original statements and account details before attaching any legal significance to the number.

“We need to be precise,” he told me during our next call.

“A suspicious description isn’t proof of the final destination.”