The Distant Promise

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The rain had not ceased for three days, a persistent, grey weeping that turned the cobblestones of the abbey courtyard into slick, treacherous mirrors. I stood in the scriptorium, the smell of damp wool and old vellum thick in my throat, staring at the ledger where my father’s name had been struck through in red ink. I was thirty-four, a man of books and silence, and I had come to St. Jude’s...

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