The Wistful Letter

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The ledger showed three days of rations, twelve shillings in the tin, and one letter from a father who was dying. Elias Thorne counted the coins again, the edges biting into his calloused thumb, checking the weight of the debt he had incurred by asking for his son. He was thirty-four years old, a sergeant in the Crown’s service for twenty-two years, and he sat in the visitor’s chair of the...

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