The Faded Photograph

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I The canal town of Mýto woke not to the sun but to the creak of timber and the wet slap of oars against the mud, a sound that had beaten in the ears of the lace-makers for three generations before the heat made noon impossible. Josef Jelinek, thirty-two, stood on the catwalk of the engine room, his hands trembling not from the cold but from the weight of the paper in his pocket, a ledger that...

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