“And they’re still there?’
“Sure!” he said. “Costs too much to rip ‘em out, but they ain’t been used for twenty, twenty-five years.”
“You’ve been here that long?”
He laughed. “Longer’n that! I was a machinist at the old Barker Steel plant for thirty years! That was one of the first outfits in here, and it was right next to the old steam plant. Burned down a couple of years ago.”
“The steam plant burned down?”
“No, Barker Steel did. The old steam plant’s still standin’, up atop that little hill to the north,” he gestured in the direction. “Ain’t bein’ used though.”
Claudia remembered seeing an old building on top of a low hill, not far from here. Except for the windows being boarded up it had looked something like an old abandoned castle, and it seemed out of place, an unused building
