The Wistful Cipher

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The ledger is in my stomach. I can feel the weight of it, a cold, dense stone pressing against my gut, a physical anchor to a crime I did not commit. I am Elias Thorne, forty-two years old, and I have swallowed the truth to keep it from being digested by the state. I am here to deliver it to the magistrate who exiled my brother, but the object is tearing me apart. October 12, 1912 The train...

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