The Faded Apartment

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The carriage wheels ground against the gravel of the long drive, a sound like tearing linen, as Elias Thorne steps down into the damp mist that clings to the ancestral estate of Blackwood Hall. He is thirty-two, a clerk of modest rank in the London office of a shipping firm, and he has come here not for sentiment but for arithmetic, driven by the primal, instinctual need to protect the family...

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