The Faded Portrait

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The wind in the Blackwood Pass did not blow; it screamed. It was a high, thin shriek that tore at the canvas of the surveyor’s tent and rattled the brass instruments on the table until they clattered against the wood. Arthur Vane sat at the center of this chaos, his eyes fixed on the theodolite, his fingers wrapped tightly around the tripod’s legs to steady them. He was nineteen years old, and...

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