"The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" Part 1 by Ted Chiang
LeVar Burton Reads
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Ajib and Tahira's Miserliness
Ajib and Tahira lived modestly in Ajib's old house. Both of them went to work for Tahira's brother, the Apothecary. It was a good living, but they spent as little as they could. After he emerged from the gate carrying the chest, I did not see him again for another twenty years. He had come home and found his chest gone; knowledge that he had paid his debt made him feel he could tell me all that had transpired.
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