“He told himself he didn’t have to make any decisions. He knew he was lying.He got up early and dressed, prowling the park’s public grounds looking for hard manual labor that needed to be done.There was a place where a path was crumbling into the swamp. The plan was to shore it up with a fieldstone retaining wall. The rocks had been delivered, but the work hadn’t started yet because it was going to be a messy job. This morning, Adam put on his grubbiest clothes, then got out a wheelbarrow and st...arted moving loads of stone.By the time other rangers began arriving, he was covered with sweat, and his arm muscles were protesting. But he had transferred most of the building material from the pile in back of a storage shed to the work area. The staff tried to hide their surprise that the boss was doing the grunt work. Dwayne and Eugene offered to help. He hesitated for a moment. They might take his mind off his problems, but he knew he wasn’t fit for human interaction at the moment. So he said he was just getting to the messy part, and he might as well continue by himself.Eugene looked like he wanted to say something else.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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