The Pale Bridge

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The Pale Bridge

The mud on the cobblestones of Harrowgate was thick and black, sucking at the soles of my boots as I packed the last of my drafting instruments into the leather case. It was November of 1904, and the air in the mill town tasted of coal smoke and wet wool. I was forty years old, and my hands, once steady enough to trace the curve of a suspension cable, now trembled with a cold that sat deep in...

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