The Pale Letter
The date was October 14, 1904, and the ink had not yet dried on the final line of Elias Thorne’s complaint to the First National Bank. He sat in the chair by the window, the cold air of the farmhouse seeping through the glass, and watched the field where the wheat had been cut. He wanted only the money, the five hundred dollars that belonged to his wife Clara, who lay upstairs coughing blood...
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