“Two years you’ve been watching that office.”

“Two years.” He closed the book and squared it.

“I know the pattern.

I have flagged it twice and got a different answer each time.”

He said it in his soft way and didn’t dress it up.

I have always liked that about Arthur.

“He will file something else before the week is out,” he said.

“Men like this do not sit still while a county reads their paper.”