Summary: Timber swindling is a crime in Wisconsin, and when Anders, Kate, and Erik see a man in the woods changing the marks on logs that farmers plan to send downriver, they have their suspicions that it’s Mama’s younger brother, Ben. When Ben writes to the family and says that he wants to visit, he only gives them a few days to meet him before he’ll leave and never return. If he truly is the swindler, can he be trusted?