The Warden's Last Temperature

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On the morning of December 14, 1898, Warden Thomas Beckett of Her Majesty's Prison Pentonville discovered that the executioner's rope had been replaced with a silk scarf. He held it in his broad, calloused hands and felt the weight of it, the impossible smoothness against his fingertips. It was a gift from his wife, Lavinia, who had wrapped it in paper and left it by his tea cup before she left...

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