The Pale Letter

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The Pale Letter

The flood came on the morning of the feast of St. John, breaking the levee with a sound like a cracking bone. I was twelve years old, standing in the millrace, watching the brown water swallow the grain we had spent all autumn drying. My father, Thomas Bradshaw, stood behind me, his face gray with shock, but it was the arm that caught my eye. The Pale Letter, the mark we had carried for three...

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