Samuel Reed Kept an Old Wooden Bat Behind the Pantry Door for Twenty Years
“For what?” Arthur asked.
“For making this take so long.”
Arthur capped his pen.
“The law is long.
That’s why it works.”
A courier van slowed at the gate while we signed, then drove on toward town.
Arthur watched it go.
“If Daniel sends anything, paper or flowers or a check, bring it to me unopened.”