The Distant Clue

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The Distant Clue

The soup was cold. It sat in the tin bowl, a gray sludge of turnip and bone, sweating in the steam of the factory floor. Arthur Vane stirred it with a spoon that had lost its curve. The metal was dull. The taste was absent. He looked up. The foreman, a man named Grist who smelled of stale tobacco and iron, was watching him. "You are thinking, Vane," Grist said. His voice was a low rumble, like...

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