Chapter 11
TO MAKE HER PLAN WORK, Nellie needed to pull out everything she had.
She spent a lot of the next day examining the bits and pieces left behind on the workbenches and the storage room.
There were two sea cow harnesses in the barn. One was complete, but held only nine animals. The other was one of the larger ones that held fifteen animals, but at some point, someone had dismantled the harness and one beam was missing. The straps were all broken, but there was a rope and leather to repair the harness, if only they had a beam.
How would she get a new beam?
Maybe she could “borrow” one from another barn.
She wandered around the wharf, trying to remember where else the other river traders used to have their barns. There used to be so many of them: the Nielands, the Deims, the Pi
