I Married the Don for the Debt, and My Husband Walked In Alive novel · Chapter 22 of 24
Chapter 22: The Benefit
Camille's POV
"The roof, baby," Odette said, without a flicker. "The Society approved the repairs in October. You were there."
"I was there."
I opened the passbook on the lectern, and my hands were steady, and I let the whole hall see them.
"Then let's count the roof," I said.
I turned to the first stamped page.
"March first. Three thousand dollars, cash, withdrawn by the treasurer."
A woman in the third row said, "Withdrawn?"
"April first. Three thousand dollars, cash. May first. Three thousand dollars, cash."
I read them slowly, one to a line, the way I read a recipe to a new girl at the counter.
June, July, August.
By September the hall was no longer murmuring, and by November nobody breathed.
"Twenty-seven thousand dollars," I said. "Every first of the month, in cash, in Mrs. Beaumont's hand. Mr. President, I have a question for you."
The president had his cane across his knees and both hands on it.
His face was grey.
"Ask it, Child."
"Who pays for the roof of this hall?"
He did not answer at once.
"The lessor," he said. "By the lease. The owner of the building."
"Who is the owner?"
"Mr. Castellane," he said.
"Has he ever sent the Society a bill for the roof?"
"No," he said.
"Has he ever raised your rent?"
"No," he said, and looked at his hands.
"Then where did the roof money go?"
Nobody answered.
Odette sat with her hands folded on her bag and her eyes on the back wall of the hall.
"Mrs. Beaumont," I said again, gently. "How much is in the roof?"
"I don't discuss the Society's accounts in the presence of..."
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