The Golden Downtown

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The letter lay on the mahogany desk, its ink still wet, smelling faintly of iron and old coal smoke. Arthur Vane read the figures twice, his knuckles white as he gripped the edge of the table, feeling the tremor in his left hand that had begun that morning and would not stop. He was forty years old, and his body felt like a machine running on dry gears, the pain in his shoulders a constant,...

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