Chapter 63 · for subscribers
Thirty-one thousand hands in four oak drawers, and the county only ever has to open one of them to know who you are. The slot under V was empty, and the groove worn into it was deeper than any other slot in the drawer, because that card had been pulled out and put back more often than any other card in the county. Mine was the most consulted document in Ardenbrook and I had never once seen it.
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