The Pale Bonsai

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The Pale Bonsai

Act I "Debt: 400 pounds, due to the Crown. Interest: 5%." The ink on the ledger was still wet, a dark stain spreading across the paper like oil on water. Harold Priddy held the book in his left hand, the weight of it pressing against his palm, a solid, cold fact against the heat of the room. He was forty years old, a master of the pale pine, but to the men in the front room, he was just a...

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