Chapter 10 · free to read
Word travelled on the rail wire. Eleven letters came in nine days and four of them had money folded inside.
Two dollars to learn who paid. Ten to learn where he lives now. She had not meant to write the second line, and she did not cross it out.
The book had been a headstone. Somebody had turned it into a business, and it had taken nine days and four money orders.
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