The Truth, pgs. 1-32 Summary

Rumors fill Ankh-Morpork about the dwarfs mastering turning lead into gold. The dwarfs in question are amazed to hear it! On guard duty, Sgt. Colon and Cpl. Nobbs admit seeing a rowboat in which Pin and Tulip bicker before setting ashore a figure who disappears. William de Worde writes down the rumor for his newsletter. Having transferred his story to a woodblock, he goes to his engraver just as dwarfs lose control of a large cart and run him over. He comes to in a noisy and dwarf-filled workshop, where Gunilla Goodmountain swiftly sets the ruined block in type and prints enough copies for William to solicit eighteen new patrons. Meanwhile, in a large house, the exact double of the Patrician Vetinari, the leader of Ankh-Morpork, is delivered to a group plotting his overthrow. At Unseen University...