Jade took another sip. She began to feel a little better. As she gazed across the room at the men studying the blowups of the one hundred dollar bill, her curiosity grew. She shakily rose from the chair and approached the huge, taped-together enlargements.
She noticed everyone had stopped working and were all watching her.
“If you’re feeling up to it,” Valentina said, “will you do me the honor?” She handed her a magnifying glass, then motioned down to the page of freshly printed banknotes - she had forgotten she was still holding them. “To pass muster with someone from the U.S. Treasury would be a real coup for us.”
The men were all standing there, watching curiously, mostly with their arms crossed.
Jade raised the magnifier and methodically began checking the freshly printed sheet of
