The Pale Bonsai

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The Pale Bonsai

The rain in 1912 did not wash the city clean; it merely made the soot slicker, turning the cobblestones of Whitehall into a mirror for the grey sky above. Arthur Vane sat in his cramped office on the third floor of the Imperial Ministry of Agriculture, the silence of the room pressing against his eardrums like a physical weight. He was forty years old, a man whose face had been worn smooth by...

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