The Pale Door

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The Pale Door

The brass compass in my pocket clicked against my thigh as I walked the length of the antechamber, the metal warm and heavy against the wool of my trousers. I was thirty-four years old, Henrique Figueira, and I stood before the new Minister, a man whose speech was clipped and sharp as a butcher’s knife, while the gilded antechamber smelled of old varnish and the faint, sweet rot of the canal...

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