The Distant Threshold
The name was called from the doorway, sharp and thin as a wire snapping in the cold. "Arthur." It was Thomas, the clerk, standing in the rain with a wet umbrella dripping onto the flagstones of the magistrate’s office. Arthur Vane did not look up immediately. He was staring at the wall clock, a heavy brass thing with a pendulum that swung with a metronomic precision that made his teeth ache....
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