The Golden Quest

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The Golden Quest

The ledger had forty-three entries to reconcile before the bell rang at four, each one a small, precise weight on the scale of the day’s labor. Elias Thorne counted the hours on his fingers, a habitual motion that had worn the skin raw, while the gold cufflink on his left wrist ticked against the brass of his pocket watch with a sound like a dying insect. It was a Tuesday in November, 1924, and...

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