The Faded Portrait
The rain against the windowpane of the mill’s administrative wing was not merely wet; it was a rhythmic, hydraulic assault, a persistent drumming that seemed to synchronize with the heavy, grinding pulse of the steam engines below. Arthur Penhallow sat at his desk, a man whose life had been reduced to the meticulous cataloging of cotton bales and the quiet, invisible labor of maintaining order...
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