Chapter 15

After a minute or so Calvin looked up.He was frowning.Surely the man wasn’tobjecting to the price,Brock had cut down the costs as much as he could.

“Is this a one or a seven?”

“Show me.”

Calvin slid the paper across the table,keeping his finger on a particular column.

Brock studied the figure in question.“A seven.”

Calvin nodded.“You added it as a one,so your total is lower by sixty dollars than it should be.”

Huh?”Brock got out his pocket calculator and began to punch in numbers.How the hell had he made such a basic mistake,and how had Calvin worked it out so quickly in his head?

“Sorry.”Brock handed back the amended paper.

“That’s okay.”Calvin shrugged.“It was you who would have been out of pocket.”Glancing down at the sheet again,he said,“I accept.”He got out his checkbook and began to write.

Brock let out a breath.

“Is half now and the other half when you’ve done acceptable?”

Brock hadn’t been expecting Calvin to be as generous as that.“Sure.”