The Wistful Dinner

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The first thing Elias Thorne counted was the stitches, three hundred and twelve in the leather-bound ledger, each one a debt owed to the dead or the dying, and the second thing he counted was the hours until the Magistrate’s arrival, which was four, by the clock on the mantel that had stopped ticking three winters ago but still showed the time with a stubborn, silent accuracy that suited a man...

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