The Wistful Witness

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The fog in Millbrook did not smell of rot. It smelled of lavender and old pennies, a cloying, sweet scent that settled into the lungs like a second breath. Arthur Vane stood at the window of his cramped office, watching the grey-white mist curl around the iron spires of the tanneries. He was thirty years old, and he had spent six years in the County Sanitation Board, a junior clerk whose life...

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