The Distant Cartograph

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The train smelled of wet wool and old brass. I sat by the window, watching the gray fields of Yorkshire slide past. My father had called me. He was dying. Not slowly, as one expects from a man of eighty, but in a rush, like a tide that had forgotten its rhythm. I had taken a leave of absence from the office. My boss, Mr. Sterling, had looked at me with eyes like cold coins. "You know the...

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