Then They Found Something Under the Roof
The villagers were no longer laughing.
Now they were fascinated.
Several young men asked Martha if they could inspect the construction.
She agreed.
When they climbed onto the roof, they expected to find little more than carefully positioned wooden stakes.
Instead, they discovered something else.
Underneath each row of stakes were small carvings in the wooden rafters.
Names.
Dates.
Measurements.
And handwritten notes.
Some were written in Martha’s handwriting.
Others were unmistakably Thomas’s.
The stakes weren’t simply storm defenses.
They were part of
