The Distant Joke

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The Distant Joke

The rain in London did not wash the city clean; it merely made the grime slicker, turning the cobblestones of Whitechapel into mirrors for the gaslights that hissed overhead like dying men. Arthur Penhaligon sat in the back of a hansom cab, his hand resting on the door, feeling the vibration of the wheels through his knuckles. He was a man of seventy winters, his spine curved by decades of...

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