She checked the electronic history again and wrote the attachment number on a yellow note.

I aligned the corners of the two documents before I read the entry beneath it.

The listed attachment had a routing description, but the index did not identify it as a final verification record.

“Does the missing attachment explain the blank field?” I asked.

“Not by itself.

We need the record that was actually used, not a guess about what should have been there.”

She opened a drawer and took out a thin procedure guide.