“He had a few questions for his old friend. Mor Pendleton was perched on his stool behind a long wooden workbench. The top was currently covered with the inner workings of an ancient cash register. The walls of the shop were filled with shelves, housing everything from a discarded vacuum cleaner chassis to a dismantled hand pump that Alex recognized as being the same kind that was used at the inn when he was growing up. There were magazines everywhere, from Soldier of Fortune to This Old House. ...Alex knew Mor’s partner, Les, was a junkie for a particular form of the printed word, and he subscribed to just about every magazine he could get his hands on. School-kids doing fundraisers absolutely loved the crusty old man. Mor was so deep in thought, tinkering with the register’s bulky pieces, that he failed to hear Alex came in. Alex picked up a piece of the register and said, “Looks like this one’s down for the count.” Mor grinned at Alex. “These old printwheels are the dickens to fix, and to top it off, I can’t get parts anymore.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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