The Closing Statement
One is a hundred and ten thousand dollars even, from Arthur Vance.
And one is three hundred and seventeen thousand, four hundred and twelve dollars and eight cents.
Desmond Pilcher is a soft-spoken man of sixty who has done this work for thirty-one years and who does not use adjectives.
He put the two pages side by side on a conference table — a settlement statement from Quincy, Massachusetts, and a federal tax return — and he said:
“The dollars are persuasive.
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