The Distant Threshold

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The contract was for two years, not for life, and Dr. Halloway made sure Elias knew the weight of that distinction as he stamped the paper with a heavy brass seal that smelled of iron and old varnish. Elias signed, his hand trembling slightly, not from fear but from the residual ache in his left ulna, a bone that had shattered three days prior in phantom agony while Mrs. Gable’s heart gave out...

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