The Wistful Dinner

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The silver tongs, heavy and tarnished with the patina of twenty years of service, lay in Elias Thorne’s palm, cold as the iron of the mill gates he had guarded since he was a boy. He held them not to serve the roast pheasant, but to steady his hand, which had begun to tremble at the first whisper of the mist that curled beneath the banquet table. The room was thick with the smoke of coal gas...

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