The Wistful Mirror
In his hands, the ledger was cold, the leather cover stiff with age, smelling faintly of iron and old dust. Arthur Vane held it up to the gaslight of the Mint’s archive room, the flame hissing in the drafty window, and watched the shadows lengthen across the floorboards. It was November, 1912, and the air in London tasted of coal smoke and impending frost, a sharpness that bit into the lungs of...
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