
Ruined by speculation, and freshly rejected by a wife who wants only silence and distance, you are Neil Durgan, climbing Deer Mountain to a played-out mica claim and lodging with the Smith sisters at Summit House. Hermie takes you in without hesitation; her sister Bertha's welcome comes wrapped around a fear she will not name, from the moment she hears whose cousin sent you. That night an unknown hand fits a key to your locked door from outside, and by morning Bertha wants you gone, and cannot say why.
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