“Then it’s automated.

There has to be a clerical explanation for this.”

Arthur rubbed his thumb along the frame of his glasses.

The entry fee was three hundred twenty dollars a team, nonrefundable, no exceptions.

He had said it out loud at the first meeting in September like a warning, and then he had never said it again.

Claire opened her purse for the car keys and moved two envelopes aside to find them.

The red print on the top one showed through the paper.