The Diamond of the Rockies [03] the Tender Vine

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Ah, my spirit, be assured, your wait is nigh to done; for soon I deem all earthly joy for me there will be none.
—Quillan THE CRUNCH OF BOOT on stone brought Quillan’s head up from his journal. The last person he expected or wanted to see was Roderick Pierce. Was this a day of trial? He squinted up with little welcome. What on earth was the man doing at Schocken’s quarry?
Pierce ignored his scowl with a grin, though the climb up the hill had taxed him it seemed. “Hello.” He fit the word between
... breaths.
Quillan nodded once, nothing more than base courtesy.
“Remember me?” Pierce swiped off his hat and dabbed his forehead with his sleeve.
“Like a blood-sucking gnat.”
Pierce laughed heartily. “Charming as ever.” He glanced down. “What’s that there? Writer, are you?”
Quillan closed his journal. Dust still hung in the air from the charges he had set to break up the new surface, and he had loaded his wagon already with the rough stone. He would carry the stone down to the yard below to be shaped into cobbles by the Italian stone cutters.
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