The Wistful Cipher
The pocket watch had been ticking in Arthur Pendelton’s left breast pocket for forty years, a steady, metallic heartbeat that kept time not with the sun, but with his own internal, trembling sense of guilt. It was a heavy, brass thing, tarnished now, the engraving on the back worn smooth by the constant friction of his thumb against the casing. He was a man of letters, a professor of history at...
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