The Distant Crown
The train hissed at the platform in Harrowgate, a long, shuddering exhale that seemed to mock the silence between Elias Vane and his wife, Clara. It was November, 1912, and the air bit through their coats, but the cold was nothing compared to the sneer of Magistrate Thorne, who had just refused to sign the pension papers for Elias’s invalid son, Thomas, citing the mason’s "unrefined ambition"...
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