“Hello, Mara,” Tim said, pushing his wire-rimmed glasses up his nose.

“Gene said you might come by for that framed picture from the 1968 grand opening.”

“Where did he put it?” I asked, stopping by the glass hardware display case.

“Back hallway, behind the bolt bins,” Tim said, jerking a thumb toward the dark corridor at the back of the store.

“Gene had me clean out the extra filing cabinets in the back office yesterday afternoon.”

I walked down the main hardware aisle, my rubber-soled boots silent on the worn pine floorboards.