The Wistful Silence

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The document was a single sheet of heavy, cream-colored paper, stained with the damp of the cellar where it had been kept. Elias Thorne held it under the guttering light of a tallow candle, his fingers trembling not from the cold, but from the weight of the ink. It was a bill for the funeral of his father, a man who had died owing more than he had earned in forty years of honest, backbreaking...

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