The Wistful Asylum
The letter lay on the wet cobblestones, its ink running in black rivulets. Elias Thorne picked it up, the paper soft and yielding under his thumb, the words already dissolving into illegible smudges. He was a Sergeant of the Metropolitan Police, thirty-four years old, and then he felt the weight of the rain on his uniform like a physical blow. The gas lamps along Fleet Street flickered,...
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