A Bat in the Belfry
“Or at any rate it wouldn’t have happened there, or to her, because she wouldn’t have been able to gain entry to the belfry at all and neither would the person who followed her in.
Decades earlier, when the bell still did ring out the hours and the half hours, the door to the enclosed stairs leading up to the slatted-in belfry was kept locked, because it was well known that the bell’s monstrous peal could flat-out kill a man unlucky or careless enough to experience it at close range.
But... not anymore. All Faith Chapel, built in 1824 a stone’s throw from the larger and more respectable Hope Lutheran, was the second house of worship on the aptly named Two Church Lane. Meant as an alternative to the traditionally doctrined Hope, in its foursquare construction, white-clapboarded height, and towering spire, it resembled its huge neighbor so closely as to be almost a twin, right down (or up, in fact) to its massive (and massively troublesome, eventually) old bell.MoreLess
Decades earlier, when the bell still did ring out the hours and the half hours, the door to the enclosed stairs leading up to the slatted-in belfry was kept locked, because it was well known that the bell’s monstrous peal could flat-out kill a man unlucky or careless enough to experience it at close range.
But... not anymore. All Faith Chapel, built in 1824 a stone’s throw from the larger and more respectable Hope Lutheran, was the second house of worship on the aptly named Two Church Lane. Meant as an alternative to the traditionally doctrined Hope, in its foursquare construction, white-clapboarded height, and towering spire, it resembled its huge neighbor so closely as to be almost a twin, right down (or up, in fact) to its massive (and massively troublesome, eventually) old bell.MoreLess
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