The Distant Crown

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The Distant Crown

The ledger in Elias Thorne’s hand weighed exactly four ounces, a block of paper and glue that contained the sum of his twenty years of service, and he counted the entries twice before the train began to pull away from Leeds Central. He stood on the platform, the gravel crunching under his boots, watching the tail lights of the locomotive disappear into the grey morning, clutching the War Office...

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