The Man Who Counted the Silence

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Cornelius Ashford sat at his desk and listened to the building breathe. The walls of Ashford House on lower Broadway exhaled the day's heat through brick and plaster, and the gas lamp on his desk gave off a small steady hiss that reminded him of a man exhaling his last. It was past eleven. The clerks had gone home hours ago. The ticker in the corner had fallen silent at three, its paper tongue...

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