The Candle in Room Nine

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The fog came early that November. It rolled down from Whitechapel like a slow tide, swallowing cobblestones, gas lamps, the lower windows of Kensington Terrace, until the building stood like a ship anchored in gray water. Mrs. Gable knew the fog was there because the cold seeped through her kitchen walls at four in morning and woke her. She did not go back to sleep. She lit a candle, put the...

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