The Distant Threshold
Wexford. The name hung in the damp air of the Guild hall, spoken by the Master’s clerk with the flat finality of a verdict. Lawrence Wexford stood by the heavy oak door, his knuckles white around the ledger. He was forty-two, and the constable’s uniform hung loose on his shoulders, a garment that no longer fit the man inside. The palsy had started six months ago, a tremor in the right hand that...
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