The Distant Promise

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The rain had been falling for three days, turning the gravel of the Blackwood Manor courtyard into a slurry of mud and broken glass. Elias Thorne stood before the heavy oak doors, his uniform soaked through to the skin, the weight of the wet wool pulling at his shoulders. He was forty years old, a constable of the county for twenty-two years, and he had never in his life been so thoroughly...

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