The Pale Letter

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The Pale Letter

The banquet hall of the Grand Hotel Halloway smelled of roasted pheasant, expensive brandy, and the sharp, metallic tang of ambition, as Elias Thorne stood before the assembled elite of the town, his smile a practiced mask of easy confidence that hid the trembling of his hands. He was thirty-two, a clockmaker of considerable local repute, and the air was thick with the promise of the new...

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