The gap wasn’t a skipped date.
Barnaby checked the bound register, then the index. References on either side expected a set no longer present in the public working sequence.
Mina Lott held the lamp.
“They replaced rough drafts after the handover,” she said. “I was told these were duplicates. No operative decisions.”
“And your concern?”
“The condition isn’t in the final summary.”
Her private work folder sat beneath her hand.
She’d kept the pages because the totals didn’t reconcile.
