“And Baillie is English,” he offered. “Why leave all of it behind and move to the States, just to oversee a smaller company?” Hulda turned the telegram over in her hands. “Perhaps it isn’t about money.” Mr. Walker’s voice sounded in her memory. You don’t by chance know where those funds were transferred? She bit her lip. Pinched the telegram in her fingers and pulled it out of her pocket. “I wonder,” she said as she unfolded it, “if this isn’t about Mr. Hogwood, but about the missing funds.”

