The Faded Guest

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The Faded Guest

The ledger of the Blackwater Foundry recorded three tons of coal consumed for every hour of operation, a fact that weighed on Elias Thorne as heavily as the iron itself, for in the arithmetic of industry, human lives were merely variable costs, rounded down to the nearest decimal. It was October, 1893, and the air in the town of Harrowgate tasted of sulfur and wet ash, a grit that settled into...

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