The Distant Affair

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Elias Vane, the telegraph operator at Blackwater Junction, had been summoned to the office of Director Halloway just before the shift change, and the name felt less like an introduction and more like a verdict delivered by a man who smelled of stale coffee and damp wool. The office was a cramped box of peeling green wallpaper and linoleum floors that stuck to the soles of shoes, a room where...

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