The Pale Tale
The invoice was damp, the ink of the date slightly blurred where it had been held too long under the press of Arthur’s thumb. It was a standard form from the firm of Halloway & Sons, dated the fourteenth of November, 1908, for the supply of coal to the Millbrook works. Arthur, a junior clerk whose career had thus far consisted of copying figures with the mechanical precision of a metronome, had...
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