The Pale Bonsai

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The Pale Bonsai

The rain in London did not wash things clean. It only made the grime slicker, turned the cobblestones into mirrors for the gaslights, and drove the smell of wet wool and stale coal into the marrow. I sat in the back of the hansom, my coat wet to the skin, watching the fog swallow the world one street at a time. My name is Arthur Penhaligon, and for thirty years I have been a man who solves the...

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