The Faded Masquerade

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The rain in London did not wash things clean. It only made the grime slicker, darker, a varnish over the bones of the city. Arthur Penhaligon sat in his narrow office on the fourth floor of the municipal registry, the window open to the damp November air. The smell of wet wool and old paper hung in the room, thick as soup. He was a clerk of records, a man whose life was measured in entries,...

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