He stood in front of the lathe for about two minutes without saying anything.

It was my grandfather’s.

Arthur Thorne bought it in 1961 for Thorne Millwork and it came to me in 1996 when the business was sold, and it is five hundred and eighty pounds of cast iron with a three-horse three-phase motor and a sixteen-inch swing, and I had put a new belt and new grease cups on it in the spring and the green paint was still bright.

Marcus said, “Four hundred.”