The Wistful Asylum

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The train had been running late for three hours, and the fog off the river had turned the landscape into a grey smear of rotting timber and wet stone. Arthur Penhaligon sat in the corner of the carriage, his ledger open on his knees, the numbers blurring in the damp air. He was forty years old, a man of sharp angles and sharper logic, sent by the Board of Trustees to audit the accounts of...

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