Samuel Reed Kept an Old Wooden Bat Behind the Pantry Door for Twenty Years
He had a side room arranged with three chairs and a folder already open on the table.
“Mrs.
Voss,” he said, very softly, and pulled out her chair.
“Claire,” she said.
“Please.”
He nodded and turned the folder around.
Three pages, each one the same pale yellow carbon I had signed at that counter for twenty years.
“Loan inquiries,” Arthur said.