I am going to be very hard on my family in this account.

So I want it said here, near the front, that in the summer of 2006 a town of nine hundred people carried a twenty-nine-year-old carpenter and a newborn for about a hundred days without once making him ask.

Part Eight: The Lathe

Marcus Teague came up to the shop on a Thursday afternoon in the November.

He buys old machinery out of closing shops and rebuilds it and sells it to the mills down the front range, and he is not a bad man and he was not cruel to me that day.

He was doing his job in a town where everybody knew my business.