The Distant Clue

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The Distant Clue

The carriage wheels groaned against the frost-hardened gravel, a sound like old bones breaking. I was twelve years old then, small for my age, with hands that trembled not from the cold but from the weight of the iron key in my pocket. The key was cold. It had been in my father’s palm for ten years, and now it was mine. I had taken it from his body before the casket was closed. The driver, a...

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