He held the paper out to me.

It fluttered softly in the steady morning breeze.

I unfolded the sheet under the gray dawn sky.

Across the top, in crisp typed letters, it said *Exclusive Agricultural and Recreational Property Access Lease, Dunn County, Wisconsin*.

The text said that Brad Kessler, acting as legal agent for Amy Halvorsen, granted exclusive hunting rights on eighty acres of oak ridge in exchange for four thousand dollars a year in cash.

On the bottom line, just above my printed name, was a heavy blue-ink signature in long, looping cursive.