The Faded River

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The Faded River

Chapter One "Can you still read the small print, Mademoiselle?" The question hung in the damp air of the repository, sharp as a blade. Marie-Therese Gaspard did not look up from the ledger. Her eyes, clouded by the early cataracts that had begun to steal the world in grey smudges, strained against the fading ink. She was forty-two, a senior archivist in this municipal building that smelled of...

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