“Then she’ll give us a statement if we ask her the right way.” He wrote June 12 in the first column and underlined it twice.

“Column one is dates,” he said.

“Column two is people.

I don’t fill in column three until column two stops moving.”

“I signed things without reading them.

He’d set a page in front of me at the kitchen table, and I’d sign it and go back to the ledger.”

“Paper doesn’t get embarrassed,” Arthur said.

“Paper just sits there and waits.”