The Pemberton Account
Arthur Pemberton found the ledger in the third basement of the Treasury building, on a Tuesday in November, 1888. The room was warm but not comfortable—coal heat that tasted of sulphur and old paper. He had been sent to catalog the effects of Mr. Whitcombe, the former Deputy Director, who had died three weeks prior of what the coroner termed natural causes, though everyone in the building knew...
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