The Faded Quadrant

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Thorne, the ledger on your desk is not balanced. Mr. Gable did not raise his voice, but the words hung in the air of the underwriting office with the heavy, stale quality of the dust that settled on the mahogany desks. Elias Thorne looked up from his calculations, his eyes adjusting from the sharp, black figures of the mortality tables to the face of the man who controlled his livelihood. He...

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