Cody

And he still owns the land?

His family still owns it, just leaves that section alone.

He says there's about 200 acres around the homestead that nobody in the family has walked in 60 years.

He finished his cigarette.

He flicked the Bud into the parking lot.

I'm not taking any more work from Wendell Mullen, he said.

And you and me and Bud and Travis are not talking about any of this.

Okay, you understand me, Cody.

Nobody.

i understand he nodded we sat there in the truck after a while bud came out of the hospital and said travis was going to be fine and the hospital was keeping him overnight for observation lenny drove us home to millinocket it took three hours nobody spoke the whole drive

I quit the logging crew a week later.

I told Lenny I wanted to try something indoors.

He didn't argue.

I think he was relieved.

Travis healed up.

He's got scars on his right leg that he tells people are from a job site accident.

He's still working for Lenny.

Bud too.

They never talk about the mullein cut.

I've seen Bud at the Hannaford a couple of times and we nod at each other and that's it.