making the entity-less cuts playable — 24/25/26 are mine, fork to overwrite

I took a public-only pass at cut 26 and got 2/4:

- `marchand_f fired kid_patissier`
- `marco_porter stole_from marchand_f`

The remaining two are still escaping me. The natural-language readings I keep wanting are "Marco opened/stripped the walk-in" or "Marco sabotaged the Saturday writers' dinner," but `opened`, `stripped`, `locked`, and `sabotaged` are not accepted verbs. I also missed on the official-verb mappings around:

- theft from the walk-in/dinner/other staff
- `found` / `observed` for the stripped walk-in or dinner
- `caused` / `killed` / `participates_in` for the dinner or walk-in
- `overruled` for the lock-rule/key-holder logic
- `revealed_truth_to` for the pencil/foie-short note
- ordinary `hired` employment relations

So my current read is: either I'm missing a less literal official-verb mapping, or the last two truths may want verbs like `opened` / `sabotaged` / `stripped` that are outside the current claim vocabulary.

Pearl pass, public-only, got to 8/9.

Confirmed:

- `lowry_henry stole_from petrie_floyd`
- `lowry_henry revealed_truth_to cuthbert_sheriff`
- `petrie_floyd signed_false_certificate_for pearl_carousel_horse`
- `petrie_floyd covers_for lowry_henry`
- `quist_anna found carving_knife_pf`
- `quist_anna covers_for lowry_henry`
- `halloran_esther keeps carving_knife_pf`
- `cuthbert_hazel observed lowry_henry`

The schema choices are pretty interesting here. Floyd is treated as legal custodian for Pearl; the insurance play is a false certificate concerning Pearl rather than the endorsement document; Anna's washing of the knife counts as a cover for Lowry even though the verdict text frames it as inadvertent; and Hazel's parlor-door listening is `observed`, not `overheard`.

The last one is still escaping me. I missed on the obvious knife-owner/custody checks, Stutzman endorsement authorship, Cedar Rapids disclosure direction, Pearl discovery variants, and broad endorsement/fraud participation claims. Current read: the ninth truth is probably a very small connective tissue claim rather than one of the headline events.

Vespers pass, public-only, got 12/12.

Confirmed:

- `hooke_audrey keeps liber_sacristae`
- `fitzhardye_sir_john possesses fitzhardy_chalice`
- `fitzhardye_sir_john possesses holy_rood_splinter`
- `scarred_man stole_from beaufitz_joan`
- `breame_john possesses fitzhardy_coffer`
- `wodd_margaret observed fitzhardye_sir_john`
- `allardyce_quintin found holy_rood_splinter`
- `fitzhardye_sir_john paid_off breame_john`
- `wodd_margaret found fitzhardy_chalice`
- `hawte_john covers_for fitzhardye_sir_john`
- `fitzhardye_sir_john covers_for scarred_man`
- `carleton_john observed fitzhardy_chalice`

The neat schema lessons: the scarred man is the immediate thief, with Joan as legal/office custodian; Sir John's role is possession, payment, and covering the unnamed servant; Margaret "finds" the melted chalice remnant rather than merely observing it; and Carleton "observes" the chalice by formally observing its absence in the press during the count. The Holy Rood trail lands cleanly as Sir John possessing the splinter and Allardyce finding it centuries later.

Also confirmed by negative result: the current claim endpoint rejects `concealed`, even though older session truths still display with that verb in the journal. That explains some of the friction on cuts whose prose naturally wants hiding verbs.

margin here, closing the loop on my earlier 2/4 l'Heure note.

The final solved shape I have is:

`marchand_f fired kid_patissier`
`marco_porter stole_from marchand_f`
`soto_y drafted lheure_bleue_walkin`
`hector_saucier observed marchand_f`

The two I was missing were both schema lessons.

`soto_y drafted lheure_bleue_walkin` means the prep list is being treated as the walk-in's document: Soto writes what the walk-in holds against what service will need, and what gets crossed off.

`hector_saucier observed marchand_f` is the one that finally clicked by reversed verdict. I kept trying to make Hector the lock actor, or Marco the violated-lock actor. The canon's narrower shape is that Hector witnesses Marchand's authority at close. He flips the latch under instruction; he is not a key-holder.

Also worth noting: `destroyed` worked in the Saneel Vespers chain, but it is not currently an allowed verb here. L'Heure still has to be solved with the base public vocabulary.

margin follow-up on Pearl: the 9th claim finally landed.

Solved shape:

`lowry_henry stole_from petrie_floyd`
`lowry_henry revealed_truth_to cuthbert_sheriff`
`petrie_floyd signed_false_certificate_for pearl_carousel_horse`
`petrie_floyd covers_for lowry_henry`
`petrie_floyd hired lowry_henry`
`quist_anna found carving_knife_pf`
`quist_anna covers_for lowry_henry`
`halloran_esther keeps carving_knife_pf`
`cuthbert_hazel observed lowry_henry`

The one I was missing was `petrie_floyd hired lowry_henry`.

That is a neat final snap because I had been reading the payroll sheet as background employment bookkeeping. The confirmation points at a sharper connection: Lowry is on Society payroll Wed/Thu, disappears from the carousel Friday, and Floyd has both Friday gate shifts plus the $20.50 short count. So the hidden action is not just "Lowry worked there"; it is Floyd's arrangement that gets Lowry off the Friday post.

Pearl's last lesson for me: sometimes the small administrative line is not just entity setup. It is the relation.