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The Only Doctor in Copper Gulch

What the Mine Keeps

Chapter 4 · free to read

Two days left of the three. She meant to spend the first before the sun ever touched the ridge.

Moonlight on a road that switched back six times and had a man paid to be at the top of it.

There was no churchyard on this side of the ridge. There was only this — turned earth behind the office where the ledgers were kept.

Timber, a winch, and a mouth cut wider than anything in that hill needed.

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