The Threshold (2015)
“First the unfortunate Haskell Gibson had been caught in the works at the mill; then a lightning storm had shut down operations in the same summer. Now in the first week of September men refused to enter the mine for four days in the belief that angels had appeared to them to warn of an impending cave-in.
“You expect me to believe an angel would appear in the cookhouse?” A rising blood pressure showed up as blotches beneath the skin on Timothy Traub’s face. The mine manager fairly danced around ...his office in the building behind the cookhouse. “I’ve heard the language and the stories bandied about in that place. No angel would go near it!” “Where would you expect an angel to show hisself here, in the privy?” one of his men asked. “Ain’t no church, you know.” “And they tommyknockers has been cutting up something fearsome,” another offered. “’Tis a double-edged warning and sure as a gun it is too.” Traub beat a fist on the same metal safe Aletha had seen on its side in the weeds, rusted and doorless.MoreLess
“You expect me to believe an angel would appear in the cookhouse?” A rising blood pressure showed up as blotches beneath the skin on Timothy Traub’s face. The mine manager fairly danced around ...his office in the building behind the cookhouse. “I’ve heard the language and the stories bandied about in that place. No angel would go near it!” “Where would you expect an angel to show hisself here, in the privy?” one of his men asked. “Ain’t no church, you know.” “And they tommyknockers has been cutting up something fearsome,” another offered. “’Tis a double-edged warning and sure as a gun it is too.” Traub beat a fist on the same metal safe Aletha had seen on its side in the weeds, rusted and doorless.MoreLess
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