A man in a dark coat steps from a bus into a wet coastal town, a telegram in his hand.

Arkham County · October 1925

Saltmere Bight

Post Office telegram, Saltmere, 19 October 1925. Found the ledger stop it is not a story stop come quickly and come alone stop need someone the town does not know stop Hollis Office stamp, 19 October, delivered the same day. The delivery boy wrote Handed to addressee on the reverse. My signature is below it. The paper has been folded into quarters and carried that way for four days.

The bus does not wait. Eighteen months since she last wrote, and she wrote to me.

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