The Faded Bouquet

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The Faded Bouquet

The ledger required three hundred and twelve entries to account for the winter’s premiums, a count that Arthur Vane performed with the mechanical precision of a man winding a clock that would never strike. He sat in the lower office of the Blackwood Insurance Exchange, where the air was thick with the smell of damp wool and old paper, and his fingers traced the ruled lines of the day’s work. It...

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