The Wistful Voyage

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The basement had no windows. It was a concrete box buried beneath the hill, smelling of damp earth and old paper. Elias Thorne sat on a folding chair, his knees drawn up to his chest, holding a ledger open in his hands. The numbers were black ink on yellowed paper. They added up to a deficit that no amount of work could fill. He was forty-five. His hands, once steady enough to hold a rifle in...

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