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Childan
glanced
into
the
hamper
.
Metal
on
black
velvet
,
peculiar
.
"
No
thanks
.
Not
in
my
line
.
"
"
This
represents
American
artistry
.
Contemporary
.
"
Shaking
his
head
no
,
Childan
walked
back
to
the
cash
register
.
For
a
time
the
man
stood
fooling
with
his
velvet
display
boards
and
hamper
.
He
was
neither
taking
the
boards
out
nor
putting
them
back
;
he
seemed
to
have
no
idea
what
he
was
doing
.
His
arms
folded
,
Childan
watched
,
thinking
about
various
problems
of
the
day
.
At
two
he
had
an
appointment
to
show
some
early
period
cups
.
Then
at
three
—
another
batch
of
items
returning
from
the
Cal
labs
,
home
from
their
authenticity
test
.
He
had
been
having
more
and
more
pieces
examined
,
in
the
last
couple
of
weeks
.
Ever
since
the
nasty
incident
with
the
Colt
.
44
.
"
These
are
not
plated
,
"
the
man
with
the
wicker
hamper
said
,
holding
up
a
cuff
bracelet
.
"
Solid
copper
.
"
Childan
nodded
without
answering
.
The
man
would
hang
around
for
a
while
,
shuffle
his
samples
about
,
but
finally
he
would
move
on
.
The
telephone
rang
.
Childan
answered
it
.
Customer
inquiring
about
an
ancient
rocking
chair
,
very
valuable
,
which
Childan
was
having
mended
for
him
.
It
had
not
been
finished
,
and
Childan
had
to
tell
a
convincing
story
.
Staring
through
the
store
window
at
the
midday
traffic
,
he
soothed
and
reassured
.
At
last
the
customer
,
somewhat
appeased
,
rang
off
.
No
doubt
about
it
,
he
thought
as
he
hung
up
the
phone
.
The
Colt
.
44
affair
had
shaken
him
considerably
.
He
no
longer
viewed
his
stock
with
the
same
reverence
.
Bit
of
knowledge
like
that
goes
a
long
way
.
Akin
to
primal
childhood
awakening
;
facts
of
life
.
Shows
,
he
ruminated
,
the
link
with
our
early
years
:
not
merely
U
.
S
.
history
involved
,
but
our
own
personal
.
As
if
,
he
thought
,
question
might
arise
as
to
authenticity
of
our
birth
certificate
.
Or
our
impression
of
Dad
.
Maybe
I
don
’
t
actually
recall
F
.
D
.
R
.
as
example
.
Synthetic
image
distilled
from
hearing
assorted
talk
.
Myth
implanted
subtly
in
tissue
of
brain
.
Like
,
he
thought
,
myth
of
Hepplewhite
.
Myth
of
Chippendale
.
Or
rather
more
on
lines
of
Abraham
Lincoln
ate
here
.
Used
this
old
silver
knife
,
fork
,
spoon
.
You
can
’
t
see
it
,
but
the
fact
remains
.
