The Merchant's Crown
ACT I They called him the Iron Merchant, and when Thomas Whitfield entered a room, the air changed — thickened, as though the walls themselves were afraid to breathe too loudly in his presence. It was the winter of 1887, and in the grand dining hall of Whitfield House on Kensington Gore, thirty-two of London's most powerful men sat around a table of dark walnut long enough to have hosted the...
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