The Wistful Cipher

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The ledger page was missing, and Elias Thorne knew, with a certainty that felt like a physical blow to his chest, that the ink on the remaining pages was waiting for him to look away. He stood in the center of the sub-basement archive, a room that smelled of wet wool, coal dust, and the slow, sweet rot of paper, his hand trembling so violently that he could not steady the magnifying glass he...

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