The Distant Threshold

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The rain did not fall so much as it was exhaled by the grey sky, a slow, suffocating mist that clung to the ivy-choked walls of the Whitehall residence. Inside the mahogany-paneled study, the air was still and heavy, smelling of old paper and the faint, metallic tang of anxiety. Arthur Penhaligon, a man whose youth was a relic of a different, softer era, sat hunched over a desk of dark walnut....

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