The Faded Portrait

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The ink bled from the corner of the frame, a slow, black tear that pooled on the desk. Arthur Vane watched it spread, the liquid darkening the grain of the wood, and he did not move his hand. He was thirty years old, and his fingers were stained with the dust of the municipal archive, a job that paid four pounds a week and required him to sit in a room that smelled of mildew and old paper. The...

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