The Distant Metropolis

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The telegram arrived on a Tuesday in late October, the paper brittle and smelling of dust, announcing the death of Silas Hale in a textile mill in Manchester. Arthur sat in his study at the university, the autumn light failing rapidly through the leaded glass, and felt a hollow, strange relief that was quickly replaced by a cold, mechanical dread. He was forty-five, a historian of the...

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