The Distant Clue

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The Distant Clue

The rain lashed the high windows of the infirmary, blurring the grey stone of the palace into a smear of wet slate. Elias Whitmore stood before the basin, scrubbing his hands with lye soap until the skin was raw and red. He was thirty years old, a man who had spent the last decade measuring pulses and cataloguing fevers for the Crown, and he was tired. His pension papers were signed, sealed,...

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