The Pale Path

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The Pale Path

The ledger weighed four pounds, twelve ounces, and a lifetime of silence. I counted the entries again, my fingers tracing the indented ink where the pencil had pressed hard into the paper. Three hundred and forty pounds of contraband tobacco, logged as "miscellaneous freight" under the name of a clerk who had died of consumption in 1909. The fog pressed against the window of the customs house,...

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