The Pale Bridge
The ledger held four hundred and twelve entries, each one a weight of graphite and silence, and Elias counted them not with his eyes but with the tremor in his wrist, the same tremor that had lived in his hand since the winter his father’s breath turned to frost on the windowpane. He needed the pension. He needed it before the ice locked the Thames and the coal merchants raised their prices,...
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