Their side took five weeks.

Oakridge fought the word error and lost, fought sending it to prior recipients and won a narrowing, fought the reissue and gave up.

Grant’s people signed in an afternoon; I think he’d have signed anything to keep a photocopy of a four-thousand-dollar cashier’s check out of a family courthouse.

I got the letter in August, on Oakridge Management letterhead. Two paragraphs. Eleven lines.

It cost me thirty-two thousand dollars, which comes to about twenty-nine hundred dollars a line.

I read it in the car outside Kit’s office. Then I went upstairs and rang the bell that said RING IT, I’M IN HERE, and Kit Boone looked up and said, “Well?”