title: Henry Hooper: The Case of the Missing Quarter
author: Brennan Bailey
description: Brennan is now a first grade teacher who loves working with children. Ashley is in her second year of optometry school and cant wait to soon be a doctor. Together, they enjoy spending time with each other and their cat, Rick, giving back to their community, and traveling the world.
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  [Three](ONE%20HOUR_split_001.html#filepos10824)
  
  
  
  
  
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  # ONE HOUR
  
  
  ### DASHIELL HAMMETT
  
  
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  ### One
  
  
  This is Mr. Chrostwaite,” Vance Richmond said.
  
  
  Chrostwaite, wedged between the arms of one of the attorney's large
  
  
  chairs, grunted what was perhaps meant for an acknowledgment of the
  
  
  introduction. I grunted back at him, and found myself a chair.
  
  
  He was a big balloon of a man — this Chrostwaite — in a green plaid
  
  
  suit that didn't make him look any smaller than he was. His tie was a
  
  
  gaudy thing, mostly of yellow, with a big diamond set in the centre of
  
  
  it, and there were more stones on his pudgy hands. Spongy fat blurred
  
  
  his features, making it impossible for his round purplish fa