Chapter 18Life after Sarah
That fall when Charles arrived for the Green Corn Festival he found Mathias sitting on Sally’s porch waiting for him.
“I was hoping you’d make it,” Mathias said. “I wanted to show you the room we built for Sally. Come on to the back. I have to be honest though. We didn’t use the first run out of the mill. We saved all of our cuts for the whole week and then we picked out the best pieces.”
Charles followed the sawyer to the rear of the lodge where he found a room nearly as large as the original dwelling. Charles was impressed. The annex looked much better than the rest of the house.
“It looks good,” Charles said, “as a matter of fact, it looks as good as I’ve seen. Who built it?”
“We all helped out, but Henry Spitlog’s son, Robert, was the one that re
