The Distant Metropolis
The letter lay on the mahogany desk, its seal unbroken, the paper stiff with the damp of a November that had settled into the bones of the house like a persistent ache. Arthur Vane did not open it immediately; he stood by the window, watching the fog roll down from the moors and obscure the iron railings of the garden, his hands trembling slightly as he adjusted his collar. He was thirty years...
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