“A signed statement from Nadine Pruitt of Pruitt Family Care.

Hired for the week of October third through the tenth.”

Eleven years married, and I’d never once heard that name.

I wrote it on my legal pad and drew two boxes around it.

Then he passed up a second page, and he held on to this one half a second longer than the first.

“The fee agreement.

Four hundred dollars a day, signed by Mr.

Mercer, agreeing to pay the cost while his ex-wife was traveling.”