Part 2: The Logbook
By evening, the whole town knew. Dell showed up at Mara's door with a casserole and a hundred questions. She had none of the answers.
That night she read the logbook cover to cover. For thirty-one years, the pages had held nothing but Tobias's final entries from the winter he died. The last one was dated the night of the great fog, and it ended mid-sentence: Sent the Halvorsen boat home by lantern. Promised Mara I'd
The sentence stopped there. For the first time, Mara wondered what he had promised.