Fools' Gold (1988)
“Construction started again, and for a few hours each day hammer shots cracked the thinnest ice, workers pooling their talents, everyone doing one job and then another. When someone posted a plea for a town meeting Ellen offered the use of the bath. She turned the tubs on their tops and brought in benches and baked bread. Everyone contributed something, tea or cookies or bowls full of hard-boiled eggs. Ellen expected one hundred people and got fifty more. Many hadn’t seen each other since the be...ach strike and were embarrassed into a light kind of laughter. It was a time of low talking and gentle movement. Many spoke of the dead man, and of the mule he’d rode so coldly in front of the very room where they now met. They sat toe to toe on the stairs, or on the floor, backs against the wall.
Ellen waited an hour before finally knocking for quiet on the top of her counter with the rounder end of the marble egg. Though no one was in charge of the meeting, John Hummel spoke first, offering his services as town secretary.MoreLess
Ellen waited an hour before finally knocking for quiet on the top of her counter with the rounder end of the marble egg. Though no one was in charge of the meeting, John Hummel spoke first, offering his services as town secretary.MoreLess
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