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The Salt RoadManuscriptResearchCompose68,420 words

Chapter II

Low Tide

The harbour kept its own time. Long after the bell foundry had gone quiet and the salt carts were stabled, the water went on counting — in and out, in and out, patient as a ledger that never balanced.

Mara waited where the tide had left its line.

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I. The Harbor

II. Low Tide

III. The Ledger

IV. Saltworks

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I. The Harbor
Mara comes home.
II. Low Tide
The missing page.
III. Ledger
A name struck out.
IV. Saltworks
The foreman lies.

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II. Low TideDraft1.2k
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IV. SaltworksTodo0

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When did the saltworks change hands?

The lease passed to the Veldt family in the spring of 1887, after the harbour court voided the prior claim.

◳ harbour-court.pdf · p.41◳ veldt-ledger.pdf · p.7

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