The Torch by Jack Bechdolt

Author:Jack Bechdolt [Bechdolt, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781938536021
Publisher: Singularity&Co.
Published: 2012-07-22T03:48:17+00:00

For generations this was a common scene—a scene as homely as a mother suckling her infant. In such places as these; among such groups the idea had renewed its life and passed from one age to another, a fantastic, distorted fairy tale believed by the eager minds of children, scoffed at in their later years, yet saved to tell again to their children when children came. No man could tell why it lived or how. We only know that hope dies hard.

Even while the little group listened the man of that family had collected a dozen of his fellows about him, off in a corner where they could whisper unheard. He was a bowed and shuffling figure, with a hairy face that had been blotched with frequent accretions of mortar. His eyes were little and sunken, and the rims were red from the constant irritations of lime.

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