The Wistful Letter

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The rain did not fall so much as it hung, a grey curtain of mist that smelled of wet wool and old iron. In the vaulted cellar of the St. Jude’s Archive, where the air tasted of mildew and the silence was heavy enough to break bones, young Thomas Bradshaw stood before the Iron Chest. His hands, pale and trembling, hovered over the latch. He was not a man of the court, nor a scholar of the law,...

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