The Wistful Incense

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The left hand of Elias Thorne was not merely withered; it was a map of his remaining years, each finger a candle guttering toward the wick. In the gaslit parlors of 1893, this was his currency, his terrifying proof of office. He stood before the mahogany desk of Mr. Silas Vane, the industrialist whose wealth was built on the extraction of coal and the quiet, systematic ruin of men who got in...

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