The Golden Compass

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Vane. The name hung in the cold air of the pneumatic exchange, sharp and singular. Arthur Vane looked up from the intake log, his fingers stained with grease and ink. He was thirty years old, a junior clerk who had spent the last decade moving paper from one desk to another, but today the weight of the promotion sat heavy on his shoulders. It was 1912, and the city was building a new nervous...

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