The Distant Metropolis

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The bell in the steeple of St. Jude’s had not rung for the dead in forty years, yet old Elias Thorne heard it now, a low, grinding moan that seemed to vibrate in the marrow of his bones and in the rotting timbers of the chapel roof where he sat, huddled beneath a wool coat that smelled of damp wool and old tobacco. He was a man of the soil and the stone, a carpenter by trade who had built the...

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