Three inches below the property description, a quitclaim release had been recorded six weeks later.

The document handed Nathan Schafer’s joint title rights back to Ronald Schafer for the sum of one dollar.

The signature on the release line was written in blue ballpoint in a loose, young slant.

It was Nate’s signature.

I checked the clerk’s recording seal at the bottom of the page.

Ron Schafer had filed the quitclaim the same afternoon Nate signed it in the machine shed.

Nate came around the corner of the metal shelves holding two paper cups of black coffee from the hallway machine.