The Ghost of the Grate
by Sarah P. E. Hawthorne
“This is as strange a maze as e’er men trod;
And there is in this business more than nature was ever
conduct of; some oracle must rectify your knowledge.”
—The Tempest
Some twelve years since, the wealthiest man in Orange County disappeared. I say disappeared, but it was feared that he was murdered; and, as a detective, I was employed to ferret out the case. I was a young man then, and had suddenly risen to prominence by bringing a gang of skillful counterfeiters to justice.
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