The Wistful Silence
The button stuck. Arthur Vane pulled at the heavy wool with a strength that surprised him, his fingers slipping on the damp fabric. It was the last button, the one near the hem, and it had held fast for five years. He was thirty years old, and the coat was his father’s, a garment of such dense, coarse grey wool that it had outlasted the man who wore it. Outside, the wind in Oakhaven did not...
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