The Pale Altar

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The Pale Altar

The rain in Harrow’s End did not wash things clean. It slicked the mud, turned the cobblestones into mirrors of gray rot, and made the air taste of iron and wet wool. Sergeant Thomas Bradshaw stood on the porch of the old parish hall, watching his coat dry in the cold. He was a big man, built for the heavy work of keeping order, with hands that looked like they had been carved from the same...

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