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“No,” said Noah “It was all here Chase and I saw it”

“We signed for it,” Chase added “After checking it, too”

At least twelve-hundred dollars in luineered beams I needed to complete the project

“I’m afraid the answer’s not all that mysterious,” said Julian “Look”

He was kneeling in the softer dirt near the outer curve of the round here, baked into the mud Scars in the earth from countless deliveries over the past two years

One set of tracks was fresh, though As recently as only a few hours ago

“Fuck,” swore Chase

“Soht?” I swore incredulously “Loaded up our stuff and just… took off?”

“Apparently”

The long silence seemed to stretch out forever, as we stared uselessly at half a pile of luure out where in the world I’d get the money to replace as stolen

“I’ve been on this job aloWhy this?”

“An even better question is why now?” said Julian “We’re so close to being done Only a couple of weeks from the final inspections”

The four of us looked at each other, all thinking the sa

“Soravely

An intruder in an eht that soe the project was even