I had thought what happened to Walter Strand was unusual.

It is the most ordinary thing in this account.

Part Thirty-Nine: Page by Page

In the September of that year I went back to Teresa and asked her how a person would count them.

She said what she had said in January.

There is no index by witness.

The records are indexed by the parties, because that is what anybody has ever needed to look up.

So the only way is to look at every page.