![]() Even worse, Walter is insisting Thomas marry a young woman he has absolutely no interest in, apparently for reasons related to the bank. The mystery comes at the same time as rumors alleging Walter is running the bank into the ground. But the family bank has been the one constant in his motherless life, so Thomas feels obliged to investigate the small sums. Thomas spent his youth carousing, and his father discouraged him from pursuing his only substantive passion, mathematics, so he doesn’t have the insider knowledge to understand what the records mean. In fact, the records suggest the bank doesn’t want to collect the owed funds at all. ![]() The papers indicate trivial loans to seemingly unrelated people that the bank is in no hurry to collect on. Thomas discovers unusual financial records at his family’s antiquated bank and wonders just what his older brother, Walter, now the bank’s director, is up to. Though there is the matter of those leaves growing from his skin. ![]() Young bank clerk Thomas, scion to a banking fortune but forced by his father’s will to drudge at the lowest of the low ranks, isn’t sure he believes in the magical Peculiarities. It’s the turn of the 20th century, and amid the heavy fog of London, women are giving birth to rabbits. ![]()
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