One Carpenter Spent His Savings to Keep Five Young Siblings in His Woodshop

and twenty.”

“I can turn the thermostat down on the tank in two minutes,” I said.

“But you have not done so,” she said.

She walked past the long walnut table I had sanded down to the grain and stood in the doorway of the bedroom. The five bunks stood in the dim afternoon light, the fresh timber clean and heavy against the white walls. I had built them continue reading …