The Wistful Cipher

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The ledger weighed three pounds, four ounces, and a single, heavy guilt. Elias Thorne had weighed it on the brass scale in the cellar, the metal tines ringing with a dull, sickening thud that seemed to vibrate up through the soles of his boots. He was a man who measured the world in grams and syllables, in the precise weight of a letter’s stroke and the cost of a loaf of bread, yet this book...

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