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day.”
    Benjamin nodded his thanks to the waiter who
had just brought his kaffi , and then said, “But you’ll have
to leave her sometime, like when you get married.”
    “That’s what Mrs. Hostetler said, too,” Sarah
said automatically, but then felt a slow flush travel up her
cheeks, and hung her head slightly, hoping the light was too dim
for Benjamin to see her blushing. Why was he mentioning marriage?
It was one thing for Mrs. Hostetler to mention it, but not
Benjamin. “What are you doing here?” Sarah asked, to try to cover
up how she was feeling.
    “Well, I have some news,” Benjamin said,
likewise looking a little embarrassed.
    “You do?” Sarah was worried he would tell her
he was getting married. She bit her lip and held her breath.
    “I haven’t mentioned it before.”
    Sarah nodded, wishing he’d come to the point
in a hurry.
    “As you know, Mr. Miller has a furniture
making business and his retail outlet is nearby. They gave me a
tour of the retail store this morning, and I start next week as an
apprentice carpenter.”
    Sarah was shocked. Of everything she imagined
that Benjamin was about to say, this was not one of the options.
“Why?” she asked.
    “I don’t want to be a farmer like my vadder and his vadder before him, and I want to have
my own B&B one day, but I like furniture, and this will allow
me to build up an income so I can afford a B&B later on.”
    Sarah shook her head. “I mean, why here? This
means that you’re not going back home.”
    “ Nee ,” Benjamin said, smiling at her
tenderly. “How do you feel about that?”
    “Me? Me?” Sarah spluttered, her emotions all
in turmoil and suddenly wondering where her ability to speak had
gone. “ Err , that would be gut . I’d like it if you
stayed here,” she added boldly. What do I have to lose , she
thought? Maybe he hasn’t asked me on a buggy ride as he isn’t
sure if I like him .
    Benjamin simply smiled widely in reply.
    Yet, despite the big hint Sarah considered
she had given Benjamin, there was no mention of a buggy ride,
despite the two spending the next hour in amicable
conversation.
     

 
    Job 12:7-10.
    But ask the beasts, and they will teach you;
the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you; or the bushes of
the earth, and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea will
declare to you. Who among all these does not know that the hand of
the Lord has done this? In his hand is the life of every living
thing and the breath of all mankind.
     
    Chapter
15
    Sarah and Mrs. Miller were at the mud sale
held to raise money for the local volunteer fire department. There
were thousands of people present, and Sarah didn’t like crowds.
Still, Mr. Miller served on the volunteer firefighting crews, as
did all the Hostetler bruders , so Mrs. Miller wanted to
attend.
    Sarah stepped gingerly over the muddy fields.
“I know why it gets its name,” she said to Mrs. Miller.
    “It’s not bad this year; we haven’t had so
much rain,” Mrs. Miller said. “Anyway, the earlier mud sales are
much worse, due to the thawing snow.”
    Sarah found the chaos disconcerting. There
were tents, and she heard the call of several different auctioneers
at once. She followed Mrs. Miller past horses going into the tent
to be auctioned, and past tents filled with quilts. Everywhere she
looked, people were inspecting items ranging from buggies to
farming equipment, lumber, furniture, produce, baked goods,
antiques, house wares and all manner of hand made crafts as well as
a strange variety of livestock.
    Mrs. Miller, clearly experienced at mud
sales, led Sarah to a striped white and bright yellow tent, which
they walked through into the fire hall. To Sarah’s delight, food
was served in the fire hall. Both she and Mrs. Miller had missed
breakfast that morning, as they had to do a whole day’s chores
before leaving for the mud sale.
    Sarah bought chicken corn soup, and Mrs.
Miller chose pot pie. Both women also bought kaffi . They
found a