"The twentieth will be true." – the old keeper
THE GATE BOOK OF SCHARTE The landlady's register of the stories of Evert Lund, as told at the chair on nineteen nights, copied into the Book by the officer of the night, Bureau number 4471, with her permission and his. The landlady keeps a register of every story told at the chair by every guest of the inn, because she says the officer is gone by noon and somebody must remember, and because the tavern runs a book on Evert Lund and the register settles disputes. She gave me the page, and he, when I asked, said I might copy it, and sat with his bundle on his knees while I did. NIGHT 1. A widower; his wife went up two years ago; he has her coat. (Refused. Officer 4452.) NIGHT 2. A father; a daughter went up in the spring; the bundle is hers. (Refused. 4453.) NIGHT 3. A debt owed over there, to a man who went up with his money. (Refused. 4454.) NIGHT 4. A debt owed down here, which the pass would settle. (Refused. 4455. Note: he laughed when he told this one.) NIGHT 5. A physician, neede...
From the lore of The Last Pass.