The Faded Shield
Thorne, you’re doing it again, are you? The voice of the shift supervisor, old Mr. Gable, cut through the rhythmic clanging of the hammers, sharp and thin as a wire about to snap. Elias Thorne did not look up from the grinding wheel, where the sparks flew in a shower of orange stars, illuminating the soot on his face. He was thirty-four, a foreman at the Ironworks in Pittsburgh, and he had a...
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