The Faded Portrait

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Hartley. The name was not shouted but dragged from the air by the wind, a sound like tearing canvas that cut through the noise of the collapsing masonry. I was twenty-six, a sergeant in the Royal Engineers, and I stood on the center span of the stone bridge over the Drina, the cold water below black and churning with the debris of the war. The relief column was due at dawn, but the dawn had not...

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