Emma said...

Emma said that I was imagining things. John said that there was nothing odd showing in his records. They were both clever, honest, reliable people. Friends as much as colleagues, I had known both of them for years and we had risen through the ranks together. But somehow they had missed this glaring, screamingly obvious gap. It was unsettling, and did make me start to question what I had found and why none of the other department heads had spotted it.