![]() ![]() ![]() Accidents happened on the railroad, which clung to the mountains and connected the little town with the rest of the nation. ![]() The men who had been traitors, who had helped the invaders – and many of them believed it was for a better state and an ideal way of life – found that the control they took was insecure, that the people they had known looked at them coldly and never spoke.Īnd there was death in the air, hovering and waiting. The people of the conquered country settled in a slow, silent, waiting revenge. Machinery broke and took a long time to fix. In the harbor the coal barges came empty and went away loaded, but the coal did not come out of the ground easily. The dark buildings of the little town wore bells and hats and eyebrows of white and there were trenches through the snow to the doorways. The snow fell and melted and fell and melted and finally fell and stuck. The days and the weeks dragged on, and the months dragged on. ![]()
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