The Golden Cellar

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The Golden Cellar

I counted the buckets. Forty-two. That was the number it took to keep the water level below the brick line before the pumps gave out. My hands were raw, the skin split and stinging in the cold damp air of the cellar. I was twelve, and my father, Thomas, was the foreman. He stood above me on the stairs, his face grim, checking the gauge. The cellar breathed. It was a slow, rhythmic pulse, a...

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