The Wistful Witness

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The letter lay on the steel table, its edges curled from the damp air of the basement, and Elias Thorne read it for the third time, the ink blurring slightly under his thick spectacles as he tried to reconcile the cold, bureaucratic phrasing of the termination notice with the reality of his own hands, which were stained with the brown residue of the 1890 ledger he had been restoring for the...

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