The fog did not roll in that night so much as it rose from the...

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The fog did not roll in that night so much as it rose from the earth itself, thick and yellow as old breath. Arthur Blackwood stood at the window of his Whitechapel lodgings and watched it swallow the streetlamp whole.

He was twenty-seven years old and had nothing. No name that anyone in polite society would acknowledge. No father who would claim him. No mother left to mourn him—she had died in a workhouse twelve years ago, and Arthur had been twelve and alone since. He worked as a clerk for a shipping company on the Thames, earning twelve shillings a week, eating bread and cheese, sleeping on a mattress that...

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