Chapter 17
Chapter 17

Chapter 17

The Last Numbers

At the base of the wall, half-submerged in the damp fallen leaves of the sugar maples, lay a smooth, flat piece of dark river slate, six inches wide, four inches thick, worn smooth by two centuries of Pennsylvania runoff. I bent down. My knees cracked, a dry, sharp pop in the quiet morning, but the joints held.

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