Song Yet Sung

It has been a hard winter on Maryland’s eastern shore. In Johnson’s Crossing, Joe Johnson’s tavern is empty. Locals gossip about Patty’s downfall. No one wants to buy Joe’s tavern. The garden behind it is the only place that yields any crops in the area that spring, but it is a bounty that no one in town will touch, thinking the site cursed and haunted.

No one notices one day when a boat pulls up to the bank, and Kathleen, Amber, and the Woolman’s son get out. They lift Liz and gently lay her on the ground.

Kathleen asks why this is the chosen place and Amber answers that this is where Liz wants to be since a "[f]riend of hers met the Lord here,” (351-52), referring to the Woman with No Name. Kathleen asks if Amber wants her to wait, but he answers that he will be fine with the passes she wrote for him. They say goodbye. Kathleen reaches out her hand to Liz, who is too weak to speak.

Kathleen sails the boat back towards home. She had sold part of her property, the place where the Woolman had lived, and made enough for Amber to have his freedom and to buy the Woolman’s son from the county.