The Golden Oath
The ink on the contract is still wet when Elias Thorne signs his name. The date is October 14, 1912. He is forty years old, his hands roughened by decades of chisel and trowel, and he wants the St. Jude’s bell tower restored before the first frost. He wants it done to save Arthur, his twenty-two-year-old son, from the debt collectors who have been circling the family home like wolves. The...
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