The Pale Altar

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The Pale Altar

The rain did not fall so much as it was thrown against the windowpanes of the manor, a relentless, gritty assault that turned the glass into a frosted veil, blurring the dark, churning fields of Yorkshire into a smear of grey and bruised purple. Inside, the air was thick with the smell of damp wool and the metallic tang of old paper, a scent that Harold Penhallow had come to associate with his...

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