The Distant Promise
The ink was wet when I found it, glistening like a bruise under the gaslight. I had been prying the false panel in the library wall for three hours, my fingers raw and splitting against the splintered oak, driven by the simple, brutal necessity of recovering the deed to Blackwood Manor. My brother, Arthur, had died owing three thousand pounds to the Crown, and I, Elias Thorne, forty-two years...
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