Walter Hartreich, Teacher of Dry, Chapter One

The story begun by Walter Hartreich of Clemence Inn, teacher of dry, chapter one. This is the story of what a woman's patience can endure and what a man's resolution can achieve. As the judge might once have earned it so the reader shall hear it now. No circumstance of importance from the beginning to the end of the disclosure shall be related on hearsay evidence. The writer of these introductory lines would describe them in his own person. When his experience fails he will retire from the position of narrator.