Word: seraphin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cubic feet of rock that had loomed over the region as the Devil's Tower. In Aire nearly every house had lost a husband, son or brother. Thérèse, who was pregnant, had lost her young husband Antoine, and her uncle Seraphin, with whom he shared...
...weeks later a wasted, ghostly figure crept down the mountainside to Aire. It was Antoine, who had incredibly survived because the rear wall of his cabin had been the cliff itself. Dazed and half-starved, he spends only one night at home, returns the next morning determined to find Seraphin, whose voice he had heard after the landslide. When the superstitious mountain men refuse to go with him, he crazily attacks the boulder-strewn waste with pick and shovel, is brought back to sanity only by the courage and understanding of his wife who has followed him up the mountainside...