The Golden Farce

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The Golden Farce

The ink on the writ was still wet, smelling of iron and vinegar, as Elias Thorne held it up to the guttering candlelight. It was a document of simple, bureaucratic cruelty, listing the debts of the late Thomas Thorne, a watchman who had died owing the city for the repair of a gate latch three winters past. At the bottom, in a hand that shook with a precise, professional tremor, Elias had signed...

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