The Wistful Silence

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The fire had taken the mill in the winter of 1888, but it was the silence that consumed Elias Thorne. For five years, he had sat in the County Registry, a room of dust and dry rot, seeking a ledger that did not exist. He was thirty-two, a man whose hands were perpetually stained with the black soot of his father’s grave, a stain no amount of lye could scrub away. His father, Arthur Thorne, had...

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