Chapter 7? Don’t know exactly where this fits. The Heat Leads Them To Do Something

It was hot, an oppressive heat settled on them all day and there was no relief at night. You sweated it out, it’s all you could do. During the day, the men escaped into the dank mine shaft, which held its own misery – coal dust suspended, the air thick with it, thicker than at any other time. All of them kept quiet, to themselves lest their throats crack with dust li...